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Oliver Twist · Beat 130 · permalink

Private office

25:53–25:56 Registered 1933

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 25:5425:54

Play from 25:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 260–260. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, balding, wearing dark clothing, seated visible
  • woman, seen from back, wearing light-colored dress with ruffled sleeves visible
Seen
bookshelf [frame:1], candelabra [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], small decorative object [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: class, domestic space, silence; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume, interior set with props suggesting a study or office

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit room with bookshelves and a candelabra; the man is seated and looking down while the woman stands with her back to the camera. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 Oliver Twist (1933) at 25:54 (passage 25:53–25:56); US record: No renewal found

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