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Oliver Twist · Beat 216 · permalink

Private office

47:01–47:21 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:0547:05Frame at 47:1047:10Frame at 47:1447:14Frame at 47:1947:19

Play from 47:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 100 · shots 426–429. 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:2
People
  • man with long beard, wearing dark coat and hat visible, audible
  • Nancy (named at t:47:04): woman with dark hair, wearing shawl over dress visible, audible
  • man with short hair, wearing dark coat and scarf, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A bearded man holds a woman by the shoulders. [frame:1]
  • The bearded man continues holding the woman; another man sits in a chair nearby. [frame:2]
  • A man with a scarf sits in a chair, eyes closed. [frame:3]
  • A close-up of a wall with a small framed object. [frame:4]
Also said
“Thinking of what?” 47:08 · “I had to cut our throat long ago.” 47:15
Seen
shawl [frame:1], scarf [frame:3], chair [frame:2], small framed object on wall [frame:4], table with crocheted cloth [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, moral dilemma, personal sacrifice; style notes: close-ups and medium shots in dim lighting; high contrast black-and-white; static camera

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit room; the man holds the woman while another man sits nearby. The transcript includes dialogue referencing 'Nancy' and a comment about a '20 girl 11'.

“Nancy.” 47:04 · “You ain't thinking, Al.” 47:05 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 47:05 (passage 47:01–47:21); US record: No renewal found

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