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The Sign of Four · Beat 92 · permalink

Private office

26:31–27:16 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 26:3726:37Frame at 27:0027:00

Play from 26:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 48 · shots 171–172. 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 lying down, balding, wearing light-colored shirt visible
  • man standing, dark hair, wearing dark vest over light shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A man lies on his back, looking upward. [frame:1]
  • A standing man grips the chin of the lying man. [frame:2]
Also said
“When we get to South America, I'm sending you to nightfall.” 26:54 · “You want the feel of my boot in your face?” 27:02
Seen
man's hand gripping chin, man lying on back
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, threat, power imbalance; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man is shown lying down while another man stands over him, holding his chin. Dialogue includes threats and references to South America and glue, but no names are spoken.

“There'll be no murdering unless absolutely necessary.” 26:37 · “You know what Chloe is, don't you? Yes. something you stick paper together with.” 26:47 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 26:37 (passage 26:31–27:16); US record: No renewal found

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