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41:18–41:37 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:2141:21Frame at 41:2741:27Frame at 41:3441:34

Play from 41:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 326–328. 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 with blonde hair, wearing a white bonnet and a dark coat with a light collar visible
  • Man wearing a dark hat and dark coat, mostly seen from the side or back visible
Seen happening
  • Woman looks surprised and concerned [frame:1]
  • Man approaches the woman and gestures toward her [frame:2]
  • Man stands close to the woman, who looks up at him with a tearful expression [frame:3]
Also said
“You've been crying.” 41:34
Seen
bonnet, dark coat, hat, painting of a woman
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotional; themes: reunion, emotional distress, mysterious encounter; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock

A woman in a bonnet and dark coat stands in a dim interior, speaking with a man in a hat who approaches her. The transcript indicates she has been crying and expresses surprise at seeing him after a long time.

“Oh, don't go leap, shim.” 41:24 · “It's been so long since I've seen you. But I... I must, I... Ah?” 41:27 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 41:21 (passage 41:18–41:37); US record: No renewal found

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