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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 75 · permalink

Living room

37:32–37:56 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 37:4337:43Frame at 37:5537:55

Play from 37:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 38 · shots 122–123. 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
  • Mr. Kovlick (named at t:37:40): man in dark suit and tie, medium build, short dark hair visible, audible
  • Mrs. Edwards (named at t:37:40): woman in patterned dress, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing, back to camera visible
  • man in light-colored suit, standing near wall visible
  • man in white coat, standing behind p1 visible
Also said
“Mrs. Edwards, in as much as it's been definitely established that your husband was murdered,” 37:46 · “Have you any personal suspicions?” 37:54
Seen
large floral arrangement, sofa with patterned upholstery, lamp with white shade, curtained windows, dark suit with tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, investigative; themes: murder investigation, formal interrogation, grief and suspicion; style notes: static medium shots and close-ups, high-contrast lighting, formal composition typical of 1930s studio productions

A group of people are gathered in a room with formal furnishings; one man speaks to a woman about her husband's murder, suggesting a new investigation. Another man in a suit is shown in a close-up, appearing serious.

“- Mr. Kovlick. - How are you, Mrs. Edwards?” 37:40 · “Sit down, please.” 37:42 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 37:43 (passage 37:32–37:56); US record: No renewal found

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