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Oliver Twist · Beat 14 · permalink

Private office

3:44–4:07 Registered 1933

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:483:48Frame at 4:004:00

Play from 3:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 24–25. 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, balding, wearing dark formal coat with buttons, holding a cane visible
  • woman, wearing bonnet and shawl, standing behind cradle visible
  • man, dark hair, leaning over cradle, wearing dark coat visible
  • infant, lying in cradle, wrapped in white cloth visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Adults gather around a baby in a cradle. [frame:1]
  • Text on screen describes Oliver Twist at age nine. [frame:2]
Seen
cradle, cane, bonnet, shawl
On screen
Oliver Twist’s ninth birthday found him thin somewhat diminutive in and decidedly small in circumfer- But nature or inheritance had im- planted
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: orphanhood, institutional care, narrative exposition; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume

A baby is shown in a cradle surrounded by adults; text on screen describes Oliver Twist at age nine. A voice says they will be father and mother to him until he is old enough for the orphanage.

“until he's old enough for the orphanage.” 3:48 · “I'll be father and mother to him.” 3:51 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 3:48 (passage 3:44–4:07); US record: No renewal found

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