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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 67 · permalink

Private office

26:33–29:26 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 27:5927:59

Play from 26:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 110–110. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seated, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie, dark hair, medium build visible
  • man standing, wearing a tuxedo with white pocket square, light hair, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in formal wear are in a private office; one is seated, the other standing. [frame:1]
Also said
“The eye of the daughter of the moon.” 28:34 · “I think you and I better stay the night here.” 29:16
Seen
tuxedo, bow tie, pocket square, desk, chair, wall sconce with candles, fireplace
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: suspicion, theft, secrets, wealth, investigation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, formal attire, studio lighting, static framing

Two men in formal wear are in a private office; one is seated, the other standing. The transcript reveals a discussion about a sealed letter, a stolen sapphire called 'the eye of the daughter of the moon,' and a plan to stay overnight at the location.

“Sit down, Mr. Harrison.” 26:36 · “But Edward showed me a sealed letter in his safe... which was reopened in case of his death by violence.” 27:47 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 27:59 (passage 26:33–29:26); US record: No renewal found

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