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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 42 · permalink

Funeral parlor

19:19–19:26 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 19:2319:23

Play from 19:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 71–71. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
funeral_parlor (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in tuxedo, kneeling beside casket visible
  • woman in dark dress, standing near casket visible
  • man in tuxedo, standing behind woman visible
  • woman with blonde hair in evening gown, back to camera visible
  • man in tuxedo, standing right foreground visible
Seen
casket [frame:1], funeral wreath [frame:1], heavy drapes [frame:1], tuxedos and evening gowns [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: mourning, ritual; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, formal composition

A group of formally dressed people gather around a casket in a dimly lit room with heavy drapes. One man kneels beside the casket while others stand nearby, observing.

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 19:23 (passage 19:19–19:26); US record: No renewal found

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