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Oliver Twist · Beat 237 · permalink

Private office

52:00–52:16 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; 2 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 52:0852:08

Play from 52:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 107 · shots 463–463. 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
  • seated, wearing a striped shirt and dark vest, young adult visible
  • Nancy (named at t:52:06): standing, wearing a dark long coat, adult, heavier build visible
Seen happening
  • A standing person leans toward a seated person in a dim room. [frame:1]
Also said
“You're sure it was Nancy?” 52:06 · “Quite sure.” 52:08
Seen
wooden chair, shelf with pottery, hanging clothes
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, identity, secrecy; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static framing

A seated person in a striped shirt faces a standing person in a dark coat in a dim interior. The transcript includes dialogue confirming someone named Nancy was seen.

“And she didn't see me.” 52:00 · “I knew it.” 52:02 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 52:08 (passage 52:00–52:16); US record: No renewal found

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