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Svengali · Beat 112 · permalink

Artist's studio

30:40–30:46 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:4330:43

Play from 30:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 238–238. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
artist's studio (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, standing, facing camera visible
  • woman with light hair, seated, being embraced visible
  • man embracing p2, wearing dark jacket, partially obscured visible
  • man in light shirt and shorts, walking in background visible
Seen
canvas on easel [frame:1], easel [frame:1], table [frame:1], stool [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, artistic setting; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, theatrical staging

A man in a dark coat stands facing a seated woman being embraced by another man, while a fourth man walks in the background. The setting appears to be an artist's studio with canvases and easels visible.

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 30:43 (passage 30:40–30:46); US record: No renewal found

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