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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 16 · permalink

Living room

6:22–7:40 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:246:24Frame at 7:037:03

Play from 6:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 13 · shots 16–17. 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, dark suit, white pocket square, neat hair, medium build visible
  • woman, dark hair, patterned robe or dress, holding small object visible
  • man, patterned jacket, bow tie, receding hairline visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands alone in a room. [frame:1]
  • A woman and a man in a patterned jacket face each other in conversation. [frame:2]
Also said
“Or was it so he could feast his eyes on you?” 7:03 · “Miss Beto. Send Struggle off away.” 7:37
Seen
desk lamp, stack of papers, wall-mounted picture, patterned wallpaper, door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: romantic jealousy, artistic talent, social tension; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, period decor

A man in a suit stands alone in a room; later, a woman and another man converse in the same room. The transcript reveals a tense dialogue about a musician named Michael, his talent, and romantic tensions.

“on ancient art and literature in the Orient. He's also a graduate of Heidelberg and Oxford.” 6:22 · “*Mockingbird noises* Valerie, how long is this, uh, mockingbird going to continue?” 6:28 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 6:24 (passage 6:22–7:40); US record: No renewal found

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