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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 35 · permalink

Living room

16:25–16:39 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:3216:32

Play from 16:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 56–56. 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, dark hair styled up, wearing a strapless evening gown with a flower at the bust and a necklace visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie and white pocket square, holding a folded paper visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the tuxedo stands holding a paper while looking at the seated woman. [frame:1]
  • The woman in the evening gown sits and looks toward the man. [frame:1]
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], evening gown [frame:1], paper [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], flower arrangement [frame:1], necklace [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or surprised; themes: formal social interaction, sudden interruption or revelation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire suggests a dramatic or formal scene

A man in a tuxedo stands holding a paper while a woman in an evening gown sits beside him; the setting appears to be an interior room with curtains and flowers. No names, time of day, or period are established in this beat.

“What?” 16:31 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 16:32 (passage 16:25–16:39); US record: No renewal found

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