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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 49 · permalink

Bedroom

22:11–22:36 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:1522:15Frame at 22:2122:21Frame at 22:2622:26Frame at 22:3222:32

Play from 22:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 80–83. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, leaning over bed visible
  • person lying on bed, wearing light-colored robe visible
  • man in tuxedo, standing near bed visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing with three others visible
  • man in tuxedo, standing with p4 visible
  • man in tuxedo, standing with p4 and p5 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit leans over a person lying on a bed. [frame:1]
  • Four men in formal wear stand together talking. [frame:3]
  • The same group of men continues to stand and talk. [frame:4]
Also said
“which this young man was supposed to shoot Edwards with this gun.” 22:30
Seen
bed [frame:1], gun [t:22:30], tuxedos [frame:3], fedora hat [frame:3], curtains [frame:1], dresser with mirror [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: theatrical performance, suspense, social gathering; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests a staged or upper-class setting

A man in a suit leans over a person lying on a bed while others stand nearby; dialogue indicates a staged playlet involving a gun. Four men in formal wear are shown conversing in the same room.

“- You all right? - Well, there's a party as you see.” 22:24 · “And Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were giving a little playlet.” 22:27 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 22:15 (passage 22:11–22:36); US record: No renewal found

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