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Beat 146

39:15–39:26 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; 1 name 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 39:2039:20

Play from 39:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 300–300. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People
  • Young woman with blonde, wavy hair and bangs, fair complexion, wearing light-colored clothing (partially visible). visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is visible with her eyes closed in a close-up shot. [frame:1]
Also said
“Take your eyes off me.” 39:22 · “There we go.” 39:25
Seen
blonde hair with bangs [frame:1], light-colored garment (partial) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, pleading; themes: emotional vulnerability, interpersonal tension; style notes: close-up framing, high-key studio lighting, monochrome, static shot

A woman with blonde hair and bangs is shown in a close-up, her eyes closed. She speaks, asking someone to take their eyes off her, after saying 'No' and 'Please.'

“No. No.” 39:18 · “Please.” 39:21 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 39:20 (passage 39:15–39:26); US record: No renewal found

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