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Oliver Twist · Beat 179 · permalink

Street

36:59–37:51 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:0137:01Frame at 37:2737:27

Play from 36:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 367–368. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a patterned dress, seated visible
  • Mr. Fagan (named at t:37:04): man in dark coat and hat, standing outdoors visible, audible
  • Bill (named at t:37:47): man with stick, wearing dark coat and hat, outdoors visible, audible
  • Mrs. Cornet (named at t:37:01): woman in light dress and shawl, outdoors visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits in a chair, head bowed. [frame:1]
  • Three people stand on a street at night; one holds a stick. [frame:2]
Also said
“Drive a hard bargain, Mrs. Cornhey.” 37:20 · “That's you and me doing some business.” 37:48
Seen
chair, stick, hat, coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: bargaining, crime, social class; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium shots, period costumes

Two people are shown in a dim interior, one seated and one standing; a second shot shows three people outdoors at night, including a man with a stick. Dialogue references 'Mrs. Cornet', 'Mr. Fagan', and 'Bill', and discusses money, stealing, and bargaining.

“It's worth three pounds to me, Mrs. Cornet.” 37:01 · “Not an ape anymore, my dear.” 37:04 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 37:01 (passage 36:59–37:51); US record: No renewal found

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