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35:16–35:27 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:1735:17Frame at 35:2335:23

Play from 35:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 264–265. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with long dark hair, beard, and glowing eyes visible
  • woman with light-colored bobbed hair, wearing a light blouse visible
Seen happening
  • man with glowing eyes stares forward [frame:1]
  • woman looks off-camera with a neutral expression [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: mystery, intimidation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight close-ups, black-and-white film stock

A man with glowing eyes and a beard is shown in close-up, followed by a woman in a light blouse looking off-camera. No names are spoken, and no location or time is established.

“so” 35:16 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 35:17 (passage 35:16–35:27); US record: No renewal found

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