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43:43–44:08 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 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 43:4743:47Frame at 43:5943:59

Play from 43:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 88 · shots 341–342. 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, frame:2
People
  • Bearded man, dark clothing, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • Crisky (named at t:43:57): Woman wearing a bonnet, dark clothing, appears older, head bowed visible
Seen happening
  • The woman is shown with her head bowed while the man speaks. [frame:2]
Also said
“Poor little bitch. Surely you are good.” 43:59 · “You are good like a little bird.” 44:05
Seen
bonnet [frame:2], dark clothing [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and intimate; themes: dominance, compassion, vulnerability; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing, static camera, black-and-white film

A man with a beard speaks to a woman in a bonnet in a dimly lit interior. The transcript includes lines where the man claims to be good and refers to the woman as 'poor Crisky' and 'poor little bitch.'

“To be so very kind. I am good, I tell you. I'm not like those others. I'm not.” 43:47 · “Ah, poor Crisky.” 43:57 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 43:47 (passage 43:43–44:08); US record: No renewal found

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