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Svengali · Beat 124 · permalink

Bedroom

34:37–35:02 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 34:5034:50

Play from 34:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 54 · shots 260–260. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person with short hair, lying down, covered by a blanket, wearing light-colored nightwear visible
Seen happening
  • A person is sleeping in bed. [frame:1]
Seen
bed [frame:1], pillow [frame:1], blanket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet; themes: rest, transition; style notes: static close-up, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film

A person is shown sleeping in bed under covers. The transcript contains a single line indicating an intention to move to the next item.

“I'm going to go to the next one.” 34:51 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 34:50 (passage 34:37–35:02); US record: No renewal found

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