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The Sign of Four · Beat 80 · permalink

Private office

23:04–23:12 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 23:0523:05Frame at 23:0923:09

Play from 23:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 136–137. 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
  • man in dark suit, light shirt, bow tie, holding pipe, facing right visible
  • man in dark suit, seen from back, facing left visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a room with curtains. [frame:2]
  • One man holds a pipe near his mouth while speaking to the other. [frame:2]
Seen
pipe [frame:2], patterned curtains [frame:2], dark suit [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: investigation, conversation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, period setting

Two men in suits are shown in a room with patterned curtains; one holds a pipe. A line of dialogue suggests interest in a young lady's case.

“Evidently you find the young lady's case interesting already.” 23:07 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 23:05 (passage 23:04–23:12); US record: No renewal found

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