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Oliver Twist · Beat 186 · permalink

Private office

39:38–39:39 Registered 1933

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 39:3839:38

Play from 39:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 383–383. 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
  • man wearing top hat and bow tie, seated at table visible
  • man wearing bowler hat and dark coat, seated with arms crossed visible
  • man in dark coat standing behind table, partially obscured visible
Seen
candles [frame:1], wooden table [frame:1], shelves with jars and bottles [frame:1], top hat [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, secrecy; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, period costume

Two men sit at a table in a dimly lit room with candles; a third man stands behind them near shelves. No dialogue is present in this beat.

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 39:38 (passage 39:38–39:39); US record: No renewal found

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