Beat 86

24:33–24:35 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.

24:34

Play from 24:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 153–153. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People

Hand wearing a white glove, part of a dark sleeve; likely formal attire. visible
Hand being held; visible part of sleeve suggests dark clothing. visible

Seen

white glove [frame:1], dark sleeve [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or controlled; themes: physical restraint, formal attire, intimacy or confrontation; style notes: close-up framing, high contrast lighting, black-and-white film aesthetic

A close-up shows two hands interacting; one hand, wearing a white glove, holds the wrist of another hand. No dialogue or location context is provided in this beat.

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.

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from The Sign of Four (1932) at 24:34 (passage 24:33–24:35); US record: No renewal found

Permalink: always the current cut
Permalink to this version: warns if the beats are recut later
Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b86.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b86"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/The_Sign_OF_Four/0153.webp" alt="Frame from The Sign of Four (1932) at 24:34 (passage 24:33–24:35); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>The Sign of Four (1932), 24:33–24:35. Internet Archive copy The_Sign_OF_Four; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "The Sign of Four (1932), 24:33–24:35", https://publicreel.org/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b86, from Internet Archive item The_Sign_OF_Four, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Beat 86

Evidence and details

The record

Share