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The Mystery of Mr. Wong · Beat 96 · permalink

Private office

53:40–54:32 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:0654:06

Play from 53:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 164–164. 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
  • man, dark clothing, medium build, visible in profile visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands beside a table with flowers and a telephone. [frame:1]
Also said
“Upstairs to my room. And how do you account for the fact that the policeman on duty in the hallway didn't see you go up the stairs?” 54:12 · “to my room and to bed.” 54:28
Seen
telephone, table, flowers in vase
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: investigation, alibi, interrogation; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, studio set with minimal props

A man in dark clothing stands beside a table with flowers and a telephone in an interior room. He is questioned about his movements, including entering through French windows and using back stairs to avoid a policeman.

“I'll find the phone number.” 53:58 · “You say you came in through the French windows.” 54:08 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 54:06 (passage 53:40–54:32); US record: No renewal found

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