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Svengali · Beat 12 · permalink

Private office

2:56–3:21 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:043:04Frame at 3:173:17

Play from 2:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 6 · shots 20–21. 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 dark hair and beard, wearing dark formal attire visible, audible
  • woman with short curly hair, wearing a patterned dress with a corset-like bodice visible
Seen happening
  • The woman stands and adjusts her clothing. [frame:2]
Also said
“Ah, here? Yeah.” 3:02 · “Leggero e rubato...” 3:09
Seen
candelabra, desk, papers, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and instructional; themes: instruction, music, power dynamics; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical framing

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit room with a candelabra; the man speaks about music and instructs the woman to remember a musical term. The woman stands and adjusts her clothing while the man remains seated at a desk.

“Don't you remember?” 2:56 · “I am speaking about music.” 2:59 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 3:04 (passage 2:56–3:21); US record: No renewal found

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