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Svengali · Beat 111 · permalink

Private office

30:23–30:40 Registered 1931

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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:2630:26Frame at 30:3130:31Frame at 30:3730:37

Play from 30:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 235–237. 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
  • man in dark suit and tie, holding a plate, standing visible
  • man with dark hair and beard, wearing dark clothing, touching a woman's face visible
  • woman with light-colored hair, wearing dark clothing visible
  • man with mustache and dark hair, seated at table visible
  • man with beard and light shirt, seated at table visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands holding a plate. [frame:1]
  • A man touches a woman's face. [frame:2]
  • Three men are seated at a table with one standing behind them. [frame:3]
Also said
“You go away.” 30:33 · “What's happening there?” 30:34
Seen
plate [frame:1], table [frame:3], painting on wall [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, confrontation, dominance; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging

A man in a suit holds a plate while standing; another man touches a woman's face; three men sit at a table with one standing behind them. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about leadership and someone being told to go away.

“Yeah.” 30:28 · “He had a good leadership.” 30:30 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 Svengali (1931) at 30:26 (passage 30:23–30:40); US record: No renewal found

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