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The Sign of Four · Beat 83 · permalink

Living room

23:45–24:06 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 23:4823:48Frame at 23:5223:52Frame at 23:5523:55Frame at 24:0124:01

Play from 23:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 143–146. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, thin build, dark hair, mustache visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, thin build, dark hair, no mustache visible, audible
  • woman lying on couch, face visible, wearing light-colored dress visible
Seen happening
  • A man bends over a glass cabinet. [frame:2]
  • A man leans over a woman lying on a couch. [frame:3]
  • A man stands near a table adjusting his cuffs. [frame:4]
Also said
“In such embarrassing matters as fainting women, I must refer to you.” 23:57
Seen
couch, glass cabinet with bottles, lamp with shade, heavy drapes, table with papers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: medical emergency, male camaraderie, domestic crisis; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, period furnishings

Two men in suits attend to a woman lying on a couch in a dimly lit room; one man speaks of getting brandy while the other tends to her. The setting includes heavy drapes, a lamp, and a glass cabinet with bottles.

“And I'll get some brandy.” 23:51 · “- It was a frightful shock of some kind. - Thank heaven you were here Watson.” 23:54 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 23:48 (passage 23:45–24:06); US record: No renewal found

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