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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 31 · permalink

Living room

15:11–15:24 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; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:1215:12Frame at 15:1515:15Frame at 15:1915:19Frame at 15:2215:22

Play from 15:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 17 · shots 45–48. 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
  • woman in light-colored satin dress with dark sash, mid-30s, medium build visible
  • man in tuxedo, 40s, medium build, holding small object visible
  • woman in dark strapless gown, blonde, 30s, standing alone visible
  • man in tuxedo playing violin, 40s visible
  • man in tuxedo playing cello, 40s visible
  • woman in dark dress with floral corsage, blonde, 30s, singing visible, audible
  • woman in dark dress with necklace, 30s, singing visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, 40s, standing behind singers visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a satin dress stands next to a man in a tuxedo. [frame:1]
  • A band of three men in tuxedos plays string instruments while a woman in a dark gown watches. [frame:2]
  • Two women in evening gowns sing while others watch. [frame:3]
  • The band continues to play as the woman in the dark gown looks on. [frame:4]
Also said
“Sailing, sailing over the ocean wave.” 15:18 · “Well, you're getting warm.” 15:21
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], satin dress [frame:1], violin [frame:2], cello [frame:2], dark strapless gown [frame:2], floral corsage [frame:3], necklace [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted; themes: social gathering, musical performance, game or contest; style notes: medium shots, formal attire, studio lighting, static camera

A group of formally dressed people are gathered in a room with a small band playing; a woman sings while others watch. The transcript includes fragmented lines suggesting a guessing game or song, with no clear reference to the film's plot or characters.

“Four men on the boat.” 15:11 · “Oh, no, no, no. Come on now, try again. Oh, this is easy. Come on.” 15:13 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 15:12 (passage 15:11–15:24); US record: No renewal found

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