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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 53 · permalink

Living room

22:58–23:01 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 23:0023:00

Play from 22:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 90–90. 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 styled hair, wearing dark dress, visible in profile visible
  • figure in dark robe and white head covering, visible in mirror reflection visible
  • partially visible figure in dark clothing, left foreground visible
  • partially visible figure in dark clothing, right foreground visible
Seen
ornate mirror, flower arrangement, framed wall art
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious; themes: reflection, mystery, domestic space; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, ornate decor suggests period drama

A woman stands beside an ornate mirror reflecting a figure in dark robes; other figures are partially visible in the foreground. The setting appears to be an interior room with decorative elements.

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 23:00 (passage 22:58–23:01); US record: No renewal found

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