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Oliver Twist · Beat 152 · permalink

Private office

31:16–31:22 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 31:1931:19

Play from 31:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 315–315. 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, seated, hand near mouth visible
  • older man, white hair, glasses, wearing dark formal coat with fur collar, seated, hand near chessboard visible
Seen
chessboard [frame:1], chess pieces [frame:1], bookshelves [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], framed portrait [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, contemplative; themes: intellectual engagement, age and formality; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast studio lighting, formal composition

Two older men in formal attire sit at a small table playing chess in a room lined with bookshelves. The scene is lit with studio lighting and shows no movement or dialogue.

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 31:19 (passage 31:16–31:22); US record: No renewal found

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