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The Sign of Four · Beat 82 · permalink

Private office

23:33–23:45 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 23:3423:34Frame at 23:3823:38Frame at 23:4223:42Frame at 23:4423:44

Play from 23:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 139–142. 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 hat, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Sherlock Holmes (named at t:23:35): man in dark suit and bow tie, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • Man embraces the woman. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm terribly sorry.” 23:38 · “I'm afraid I'm going to see.” 23:42
Seen
desk with glass decanter and glasses, framed picture on wall, curtained window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: mystery, distress, reassurance; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, period interior

Three people are in a room; one woman speaks to two men, one of whom identifies himself as Sherlock Holmes. The woman appears distressed and is later embraced by one of the men.

“Mr. Holmes!” 23:34 · “mr sherlock holmes is that is my name” 23:35 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 23:34 (passage 23:33–23:45); US record: No renewal found

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