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Oliver Twist · Beat 199 · permalink

Private office

42:32–44:01 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:1643:16

Play from 42:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 400–400. 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
  • child-sized, wearing dark top and light trousers, climbing bookshelf visible
  • Atelier (named at t:43:37): unseen audible
  • unseen audible
Seen happening
  • A person climbs a bookshelf. [frame:1]
Also said
“I got him!” 43:48 · “Why, it's just a little boy.” 43:58
Seen
bookshelf [frame:1], books [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: pursuit, misidentification, child in danger; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static camera, black-and-white film

A person climbs a bookshelf in a dim interior while off-screen voices call out, including one that says 'Come back, Atelier' and another that exclaims 'I got him!' after a gunshot sound. The final line notes the target is 'just a little boy.'

“Come back, Atelier.” 43:37 · “*gunshot*” 43:44 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 43:16 (passage 42:32–44:01); US record: No renewal found

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