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Svengali · Beat 147 · permalink

Bedroom

39:26–39:56 Registered 1931

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

Frame at 39:2739:27Frame at 39:4239:42

Play from 39:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 68 · shots 301–302. 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
  • man with long dark hair and a full beard, wearing a dark coat over a lighter shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man sits on a bed in a dim room, looking distressed. [frame:1]
  • The man clutches his chest with both hands, grimacing. [frame:2]
Seen
bed [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], light shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anguished; themes: suffering, internal conflict; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight close-ups, dramatic shadows

A man with long hair and a beard is shown in a dimly lit room, first sitting on a bed and then clutching his chest. He speaks lines about pain and being led to someone, then says the pain is gone.

“Let me go. But the pain leads you to me.” 39:26 · “No, no, it's gone now.” 39:29 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 39:27 (passage 39:26–39:56); US record: No renewal found

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