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Oliver Twist · Beat 22 · permalink

Workhouse

6:00–6:34 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:026:02Frame at 6:076:07Frame at 6:116:11Frame at 6:256:25

Play from 6:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 44–50. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
workhouse (other, interior) evidence: t:6:19
People
  • young boy, short dark hair, wearing a textured coat over a dark shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The boy is crying with his head down. [frame:1]
  • The boy lifts his head and wipes his eye. [frame:2]
  • The boy looks upward while wiping his eye again. [frame:3]
  • The screen is black. [frame:4]
Also said
“You begin by scrubbing the floor of the workhouse dining room.” 6:19 · “I love it.” 6:33
Seen
wooden table [frame:1], wood-paneled wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and resigned; themes: institutional care, child labor, emotional suppression; style notes: static medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white, theatrical framing

A boy in a coat is shown crying at a table while being told he will scrub floors at a workhouse. The scene ends with a black screen after he says 'I love it.'

“that you were brought up by the parish,” 6:02 · “What are you crying for?” 6:04 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 6:02 (passage 6:00–6:34); US record: No renewal found

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