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Svengali · Beat 152 · permalink

Studio

40:13–40:16 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:1440:14

Play from 40:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 309–309. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
studio (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seated at desk, wearing dark jacket and bow tie, holding a book or folder visible
  • bare foot and lower leg, likely female, in foreground visible
  • man standing in background left, wearing light suit and bow tie visible
  • man standing in background center, wearing dark suit, gesturing with arm raised visible
  • man partially visible behind p1, wearing dark suit visible
Seen
desk [frame:1], easel [frame:1], book or folder [frame:1], TCM logo [frame:1]
On screen
TCM
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: static, staged; themes: artistic setting, performance, observation; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, foreground obstruction, studio set

A man sits at a desk in a room with easels and other figures in the background; a bare foot and lower leg are prominent in the foreground. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 40:14 (passage 40:13–40:16); US record: No renewal found

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