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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 89 · permalink

Bedroom

47:04–47:18 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:0647:06Frame at 47:0847:08Frame at 47:1247:12Frame at 47:1647:16

Play from 47:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 148–152. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, bending over a nightstand, examining an object visible
  • man in uniform, standing near doorway visible
  • man in fedora and suit, holding papers visible
  • man in uniform, standing near bed visible
  • person lying on bed, covered by blanket visible
  • woman in light dress, standing near group visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit bends over a nightstand near a lamp. [frame:2]
  • Uniformed officers and others stand near a doorway while a body lies on a bed. [frame:4]
Also said
“You stay here, don't let anyone in or out until the street gets here.” 47:12
Seen
bed with body [frame:1], lamp with patterned shade [frame:2], nightstand with small object [frame:3], uniforms and fedoras [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: crime scene investigation, authority and control, suspense; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged composition typical of 1930s mystery films

A group of people, including uniformed officers, are in a bedroom where a body lies on a bed; one man examines an object near a lamp while others stand guard at the door. The transcript indicates they are waiting for someone to arrive at Gold Street and have been instructed to secure the room.

“Aren't you going to Gold Street?” 47:05 · “Yeah, get him over here right away. Right. All right, folks, let's clear the room.” 47:07 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 47:06 (passage 47:04–47:18); US record: No renewal found

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