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The Sign of Four · Beat 7 · permalink

Private office

1:55–2:05 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:591:59Frame at 2:052:05

Play from 1:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 9–10. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • lower body visible, wearing light trousers and dark shoes visible
  • balding man in a suit jacket and tie, seated at a desk visible
  • man in a light shirt and vest, standing behind a large box visible
Seen happening
  • A person enters the room. [frame:1]
  • A seated man gestures toward the entrant. [frame:2]
Seen
desk [frame:2], large box-like object [frame:2], hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: arrival, formal greeting, office setting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, typical of early 1930s studio production

A person enters a room as another man gestures toward them. A third person stands behind a large box-like object.

“Come in, come in.” 2:04 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from The Sign of Four (1932) at 1:59 (passage 1:55–2:05); US record: No renewal found

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