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Oliver Twist · Beat 176 · permalink

Private office

36:01–36:27 Registered 1933

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 36:0336:03Frame at 36:1636:16

Play from 36:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 81 · shots 362–363. 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
  • Mr. Fagan (named at t:36:11): man, dark coat, medium build, clean-shaven, seated at table visible, audible
  • Mrs. Corney (named at t:36:02): woman, dark dress, older, seated, facing p1 visible, audible
Also said
“And they all tell me you're the man to come to.” 36:14 · “I'm a businessman.” 36:25
Seen
table with cloth, teapot and cups, brick wall background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: negotiation, moral ambiguity, class disparity; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, confined space

A man and a woman are seated at a table in a dimly lit room; the woman speaks of needing money and refers to the man as Mr. Fagan. The man responds by asking what she wants and how much, identifying himself as a businessman.

“Certainly you can trust me, Mrs. Corney.” 36:02 · “I need money there, Mr. Fagan.” 36:11 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 36:03 (passage 36:01–36:27); US record: No renewal found

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