Public Reel

Oliver Twist · Beat 254 · permalink

Private office

56:53–57:13 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 56:5556:55Frame at 57:0057:00Frame at 57:0457:04Frame at 57:1057:10

Play from 56:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 109 · shots 502–508. 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
  • woman, mid-adult, light-colored dress with lace collar, visible in close-up visible, audible
  • Bill (named at t:56:55): man, mid-adult, dark coat, seen in silhouette and profile visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man collapses or falls in the room. [frame:3]
Also said
“No!” 57:01 · “I'm not ready to go yet.” 57:03
Seen
wood-paneled wall [frame:2], small table with object on it [frame:4], door with panels [frame:2], framed picture on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and tragic; themes: betrayal, desperation, death; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight close-ups, silhouetted figures, static camera

A woman speaks urgently to a man named Bill in a dim room; he reacts with pain and falls, while she cries out and makes sad noises. The setting is a dark, wood-paneled interior with minimal furniture.

“Then you know that I was true to you, Bill. True to you, hear me?” 56:55 · “Ow!” 56:58 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Oliver Twist (1933) at 56:55 (passage 56:53–57:13); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/oliver_twist/b254.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite