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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 73 · permalink

Living room

36:27–37:23 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; 3 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 36:5536:55

Play from 36:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 37 · shots 120–120. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Peter (named at t:36:55): man in dark suit, standing near doorway visible, audible
  • Valeria (named at t:36:56): woman in patterned blouse and dark skirt, back to camera visible, audible
  • woman in light dress and apron, holding papers, standing near door visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and two women stand in a room, preparing to leave. [frame:1]
Mentioned
  • It is mentioned that Peter was released because the bullet that killed Valeria's husband was not fired from his gun. [t:37:06]
Also said
“Valeria.” 36:56 · “Killed your husband. Wasn't fired from my gun.” 37:08
Seen
door [frame:1], small round table [frame:1], apron [frame:1], papers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but resolving; themes: innocence proven, police procedure, domestic tension; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, classic 1930s studio set design

A man and two women are in a room; one woman speaks to a man named Peter, and they prepare to go downstairs after being released by police. The transcript indicates the man was cleared because the bullet that killed Valeria's husband did not come from his gun.

“Yeah, I'll release him.” 36:31 · “Peter.” 36:55 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 36:55 (passage 36:27–37:23); US record: No renewal found

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