Beat 15

4:07–4:16 Registered 1933

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

4:11

Play from 4:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 26–26. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

On screen: Oliver Twist’s ninth birthday found him a pale, thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumstance. But nature or inheritance had implanted a good strong spirit in Oliver’s breast
Interpretation: Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: character introduction, narrative exposition; style notes: static text frame, no camera movement, typographic presentation

The beat displays on-screen text describing Oliver Twist on his ninth birthday as thin and small but possessing a strong spirit. No people, actions, or settings are visible in the frame.

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 4:11 (passage 4:07–4:16); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/oliver_twist/b15.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/oliver_twist/b15"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/oliver_twist/0026.webp" alt="Frame from Oliver Twist (1933) at 4:11 (passage 4:07–4:16); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Oliver Twist (1933), 4:07–4:16. Internet Archive copy oliver_twist; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Oliver Twist (1933), 4:07–4:16", https://publicreel.org/moment/oliver_twist/b15, from Internet Archive item oliver_twist, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Beat 15

Evidence and details

The record

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