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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 46 · permalink

Bedroom

20:21–21:33 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 7 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 20:2920:29Frame at 21:0521:05

Play from 20:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 76–77. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing beside bed visible
  • woman in maid's uniform, dark dress, white cap visible
  • person lying on bed, face visible, wearing light-colored garment visible
  • man in tuxedo, holding microphone visible
  • man in tuxedo, standing center visible
  • man in tuxedo, standing right visible
  • Mr. Wong (named at t:20:40): unseen speaker audible
Also said
“Edwards. He loaded it with blanks. I sat right here and watched him.” 20:56 · “Open up.” 21:22
Seen
bed, bedside table, telephone, microphone, tuxedos, heavy drapes
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, investigative; themes: theatrical performance, investigation, mystery; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal staging

A man in a suit stands beside a bed where a person lies, while a woman in a maid's uniform looks on. Three men in tuxedos stand together in a room with heavy drapes and formal furniture.

“Where's the telephone?” 20:26 · “I did, Mr. Wong.” 20:40 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 20:29 (passage 20:21–21:33); US record: No renewal found

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