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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 51 · permalink

Living room

22:54–22:57 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 22:5522:55

Play from 22:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 88–88. 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
  • older man, grey hair, wearing a tuxedo with a white pocket square visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark overcoat, arms crossed visible
  • man wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, standing to the right visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark dress, seated in the foreground visible
Seen
{'item': 'tuxedo', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'dark overcoat', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'patterned curtains', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'palm plant', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'carpeted floor', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: formal gathering, confrontation, mystery; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests a formal gathering or confrontation

A group of formally dressed people stand in a room with patterned curtains and a palm plant. One man in a tuxedo is in the foreground, another in a dark coat stands behind him, and a third man in a tuxedo is visible to the right.

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 22:55 (passage 22:54–22:57); US record: No renewal found

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