Living room
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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 17:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 58–64. 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 in tuxedo, smiling, holding a glass visible, audible
- woman in dark evening gown, standing between two men visible, audible
- man in tuxedo, dark hair, standing to right of p2 visible, audible
- woman in light-colored gown, standing left foreground in frame:3 visible
- man in tuxedo, seated, speaking in frame:3 visible, audible
- man in tuxedo, standing behind p4 in frame:3 visible
- woman in dark dress, visible in background of frame:4 visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a tuxedo speaks while holding a glass. [frame:1]
- The same man gestures toward the woman in the center. [frame:2]
- A seated man speaks while others stand around him. [frame:3]
- People gather around a table with papers and flowers. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Dead men tell no tales. No, you're not even warm.” 17:53 · “I've got it. Let's play murder.” 17:57
- Seen
- tuxedos [frame:1], evening gowns [frame:1], glass [frame:1], table with papers and flowers [frame:4], lamp [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and theatrical; themes: social games, suspicion, drama; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, formal attire, low-key lighting with strong shadows
A group of formally dressed people interact in a dimly lit room; one man suggests playing murder while others react. No names are spoken that identify individuals in the frames.
“The eternal triangle!” 17:42 · “You lose. Oh, no, no, no.” 17:45 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.
Share
Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.
- Permalink
- always the current cut
- Permalink to this version
- warns if the beats are recut later
- Card image
- https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/The_Mystery_of_Mr._Wong/b37.png
- Figure for a newsletter or page
- Cite