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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 111 · permalink

Private office

59:25–59:59 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:2859:28Frame at 59:4459:44

Play from 59:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 189–190. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, white shirt, tie, boutonniere, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Mrs. Edward (named at t:59:31): woman with styled dark hair, wearing dark fur coat, light complexion visible, audible
Also said
“He suspected the one who hated him.” 59:45 · “Is it possible that that could include young Harrison?” 59:51
Seen
desk [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], ornate chair [frame:1], flower arrangement [frame:1], fur coat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: suspicion, mystery, social decorum under pressure; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a suit stands at a desk while a woman in a fur coat speaks with him in a dimly lit room. The dialogue suggests a discussion about a letter, a husband's suspicions, and potential enemies, including someone named Harrison.

“Why, good evening Mrs. Edward. The letter.” 59:31 · “Whom do my husband suspect?” 59:42 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 Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939) at 59:28 (passage 59:25–59:59); US record: No renewal found

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