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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 52 · permalink

Living room

22:57–22:58 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 22:5722:57

Play from 22:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 89–89. 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
  • woman with dark hair in profile, wearing dark clothing visible
  • partially visible figure in shadow on left, dark clothing visible
  • partially visible figure on right, dark clothing visible
Seen
ornate mirror, flower arrangement, framed picture on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and shadowy; themes: mystery, domestic space, obscurity; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium shot, static framing, period decor

A woman stands in profile beside an ornate mirror in a dimly lit interior; two other figures are partially visible in shadow. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 22:57 (passage 22:57–22:58); US record: No renewal found

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