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The Sign of Four · Beat 73 · permalink

Private office

21:14–21:30 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 21:1821:18Frame at 21:2321:23Frame at 21:2821:28

Play from 21:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 119–121. 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:1
People
  • woman, wearing dark coat with fur collar and a hat, holding papers visible
Seen happening
  • woman stands holding papers [frame:1]
  • close-up of handwritten note with threatening message [frame:2]
  • woman reacts with surprise while holding papers [frame:3]
Seen
handwritten note, dark coat with fur collar, hat, papers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, threat, discovery; style notes: static medium shots, close-up on document, high-contrast lighting

A woman in a dark coat and hat stands indoors holding papers, then reacts with surprise while holding them. A close-up shows a handwritten note with a threatening message.

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 21:18 (passage 21:14–21:30); US record: No renewal found

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