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Svengali · Beat 176 · permalink

Jail

46:05–46:25 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:0946:09Frame at 46:1446:14Frame at 46:1846:18Frame at 46:2346:23

Play from 46:05 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 91 · shots 352–355. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:4
People
  • woman wearing a light headscarf and patterned dress visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, holding a white garment visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing near railing visible
  • man in uniform or dark coat, partially visible visible
  • woman with blonde hair, visible behind railing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark coat moves near a railing while others stand in a doorway. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a headscarf gestures with her hands while speaking to a man in a suit. [frame:3]
  • A group of men stand together, one holding a white garment, while a blonde woman is visible behind a railing. [frame:4]
Also said
“Are these her clothes?” 46:23
Seen
metal railing, white garment, doorway, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: confinement, accusation, moral panic; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static medium shots, confined framing with railings and doorways

A group of people, including a woman in a headscarf and men in dark coats, are gathered in a dimly lit interior space with metal railings. One man holds a white garment while others look on; a woman is seen behind a railing in a separate area.

“- Winnie! Winnie boy! Kill her!” 46:05 · “Oh, Monsieur, but it's amazing that it's been a thrill-by. It's a thrill-by. It's a thrill-by. You know, thrill-by, of a while? No.” 46:15 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 46:09 (passage 46:05–46:25); US record: No renewal found

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