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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 62 · permalink

Living room

23:52–24:09 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:0124:01

Play from 23:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 100–100. 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
  • man in dark suit and tie, medium build, appears middle-aged visible
  • woman in dark coat and hat, medium build, appears middle-aged visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman enter a room through a doorway. [frame:1]
Also said
“Yes, we were all here.” 23:57 · “- What keeps you so low? - I'm sorry, sir.” 24:01
Seen
body on floor [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], wall sconces [frame:1], dressing table with mirror [frame:1], chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: mystery, investigation, suspicion; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, classic noir framing with doorway as entry point

A man and a woman enter a room where a body lies on the floor; the transcript includes questions about who was present when a gun was fired. No names are spoken in the supplied lines to identify the people visible.

“Maybe we better start this thing at the beginning.” 23:53 · “Were all these people here when this gun was fired?” 23:55 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 24:01 (passage 23:52–24:09); US record: No renewal found

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