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Svengali · Beat 141 · permalink

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38:07–38:21 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 38:1438:14

Play from 38:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 291–291. 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
  • woman, light-colored hair, wearing a light dress and dark cloak visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark coat or cloak visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man gestures toward the woman while speaking. [frame:1]
Also said
“Sit down.” 38:19
Seen
dark cloak worn by man, light dress and dark cloak worn by woman
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: control, obedience; style notes: low-key lighting, tight two-shot, high contrast between figures and dark background

A man and a woman stand in a dimly lit interior; the man speaks to the woman, telling her not to be frightened and to sit down. No names are spoken, and no objects or text are visible beyond their clothing and the dark background.

“Come.” 38:13 · “Don't be frightened.” 38:15 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 38:14 (passage 38:07–38:21); US record: No renewal found

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