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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 92 · permalink

Private office

47:44–50:16 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; 2 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 49:0049:00

Play from 47:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 155–155. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, wearing dark suit and glasses, seated at desk, handling papers visible, audible
  • older man, wearing dark suit and glasses, standing beside desk, leaning forward visible, audible
Seen happening
  • One man is seated at a desk handling papers while another stands beside him. [frame:1]
Also said
“Have you found something wrong?” 48:52 · “But in any event, whoever has it or finds it later is obviously in great danger.” 49:25
Seen
desk, lamp, papers, cigarette
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: mystery, crime investigation, security breach; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, period costume and set design

Two men are in a room with a desk and lamp; one is seated and handling papers while the other stands nearby. The dialogue reveals a mystery involving a missing letter, a murdered girl, and a breach of security in the house.

“Oh, Hanson, I was just having a drink. Won't you join me?” 48:00 · “Oh, won't you join us for a drink, Mr. Wong? Thank you, no.” 48:18 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 49:00 (passage 47:44–50:16); US record: No renewal found

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