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Oliver Twist · Beat 138 · permalink

Private office

28:23–28:52 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 28:2728:27Frame at 28:3228:32Frame at 28:3928:39Frame at 28:4828:48

Play from 28:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 285–289. 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
  • elderly man, balding, wearing dark formal coat, standing center visible
  • Oliver (named at t:28:27): boy, young, wearing light-colored suit, standing center visible
  • elderly man, wearing glasses and overcoat, standing left visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing dark suit, standing right visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark coat hands money to a boy. [frame:1]
  • The boy looks up at the man as he receives the money. [frame:2]
  • The man holds the money out while speaking to the boy. [frame:3]
  • The man bends slightly toward the boy, continuing to hold the money. [frame:4]
Also said
“You are to say that you have come to pay the four pounds that I owe.” 28:39 · “I'll be back in 20 minutes, sir.” 28:49
Seen
money [frame:1], candles [frame:4], wooden desk or table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and transactional; themes: debt, child agency, adult authority; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, staged composition

A man hands money to a boy while two other men observe; the dialogue indicates the boy is to deliver five pounds to settle a debt and keep one pound as truth. The scene takes place indoors with three adult men and one boy present.

“Oliver dear.” 28:27 · “Here are five pounds.” 28:36 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 28:27 (passage 28:23–28:52); US record: No renewal found

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