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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 84 · permalink

Living room

45:33–45:37 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 45:3545:35

Play from 45:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 143–143. 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
  • silhouetted figure in dark clothing, medium build visible
  • silhouetted figure in dark clothing, medium build, facing p1 visible
Seen
fireplace [frame:1], silhouetted figures [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: mystery, confrontation, shadow; style notes: high-contrast lighting, silhouettes against a dark background, static framing

Two silhouetted figures stand in a dimly lit room with a fireplace; no dialogue or on-screen text is present. The scene is dark and shadowy, with only outlines of the figures and fireplace visible.

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 45:35 (passage 45:33–45:37); US record: No renewal found

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