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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 79 · permalink

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38:57–44:00 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 41:2941:29

Play from 38:57 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 40 · shots 135–135. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
  • man, partially visible in shadow, facing p1 visible, audible
  • Michael (named at t:40:56): unseen speaker, referenced as 'Michael' and 'Arthur' audible, mentioned
  • Audrina (named at t:40:56): unseen speaker, referenced as 'Audrina' audible, mentioned
Also said
“The jewel, of course.” 41:15 · “I'll mail it to Wong.” 42:29
Seen
suit, building with window, trees or foliage
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: suspicion, deception, romantic tension, legal intrigue; style notes: low-key lighting, night exterior, medium shot framing two characters in conversation

A man in a suit speaks with another person outdoors at night near a building; dialogue references a will, a stolen jewel, and a letter in a safe. The scene includes a romantic reunion and a threat involving mailing evidence to 'Wong'.

“How did you feel about the changing of this will?” 39:04 · “- Michael, darling. - Audrina.” 40:56 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 41:29 (passage 38:57–44:00); US record: No renewal found

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