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Svengali · Beat 119 · permalink

Private office

32:43–33:03 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:5132:51Frame at 33:0133:01

Play from 32:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 254–255. 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 with long hair and beard, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • man holds a small object in his right hand [frame:1]
  • man gestures with his left hand while touching his face [frame:2]
Also said
“and are dreamt of” 32:53 · “in your philosophy.” 32:56
Seen
wide-brimmed hat, dark coat, small object in hand, table with checkered cloth, framed picture on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic, mysterious; themes: supernatural, philosophical reflection; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium close-up framing

A man in a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat is visible in two frames, holding an object and gesturing. The transcript contains fragmented lines from Shakespeare, spoken during this beat.

“It might be as well to remember...” 32:45 · “There are more things in heaven and earth.” 32:49 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 32:51 (passage 32:43–33:03); US record: No renewal found

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