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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 23 · permalink

Private office

10:48–11:07 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 10:5710:57

Play from 10:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 33–33. 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:1
People
  • man in tuxedo, back to camera, balding visible
  • man in tuxedo, glasses, white flower boutonniere, facing camera visible, audible
Seen
tuxedo, glasses, white flower boutonniere, fireplace
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: danger, warning, formal confrontation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests a formal or serious setting

Two men in formal wear converse in a dimly lit room with a fireplace; one warns the other that his life may be in danger. The scene is a single shot with no visible movement or change in setting.

“I suppose you realize your life may be in danger.” 10:50 · “is in danger.” 10:54 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 10:57 (passage 10:48–11:07); US record: No renewal found

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