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Oliver Twist · Beat 132 · permalink

Private office

26:13–26:46 Registered 1933

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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:1426:14Frame at 26:1626:16Frame at 26:2926:29Frame at 26:4026:40

Play from 26:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 265–269. 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
  • Uncle (named at t:26:15): older man, white hair, formal dark coat, waistcoat, cravat visible, audible
  • young boy, light suit, dark hair visible, audible
  • Maria (named at t:26:15): woman, dark hair, light off-shoulder dress, necklace visible, audible
  • Mr. Grimwig (named at t:26:24): man, dark formal suit, white shirt, bow tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • An older man stands holding a book while a boy and a woman sit nearby. [frame:1]
  • The woman smiles and speaks to the older man. [frame:2]
  • A man in formal attire enters the room and stands near the seated group. [frame:3]
  • The group remains seated as the man in formal attire stands nearby. [frame:4]
Also said
“Excuse me, sir. It's Mr. Grimwig.” 26:24 · “Oh, won't you stay, dear.” 26:40
Seen
bookshelf, book, candelabra, necklace, armchair, vase with flowers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite and domestic; themes: social etiquette, domestic gathering, intergenerational interaction; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, book-lined interior

An older man and a young boy are in a room with bookshelves while a woman speaks to them; a man in formal attire enters and is addressed as Mr. Grimwig. The group prepares to move to another room for tea.

“What is it, Uncle?” 26:15 · “Oh, nothing, nothing, Maria.” 26:17 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 Oliver Twist (1933) at 26:14 (passage 26:13–26:46); US record: No renewal found

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