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The Sign of Four · Beat 84 · permalink

Living room

24:06–24:27 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 24:1024:10Frame at 24:1524:15Frame at 24:1924:19Frame at 24:2424:24

Play from 24:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 147–150. 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:2
People
  • man, dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, neat haircut, medium build visible, audible
  • woman, light-colored dress with ruffles, dark hair styled with a headband, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man stands beside seated woman, holding a glass. [frame:1]
  • Man turns away briefly, standing alone in room. [frame:2]
  • Man leans toward woman, speaking to her. [frame:3]
  • Man continues to lean toward woman, who looks up at him. [frame:4]
Also said
“I apologize.” 24:21
Seen
glass, clock, curtains, wall clock
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and apologetic; themes: social propriety, emotional distress, comfort and apology; style notes: medium close-ups, static camera, studio lighting, formal attire suggests period drama

A man in a suit comforts a seated woman who appears distressed; he speaks to her while holding a glass. The woman responds with apology and shame, as indicated by the transcript.

“That's better. You'll feel all right again in a minute.” 24:13 · “I feel terribly ashamed.” 24:18 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 24:10 (passage 24:06–24:27); US record: No renewal found

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