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Svengali · Beat 178 · permalink

Private office

46:43–47:12 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:5846:58

Play from 46:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 358–358. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, light hair, wearing dark suit and tie, medium build visible, audible
  • partially visible person behind p1, dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks while looking slightly off-camera. [frame:1]
Also said
“- You're not going to get into it. - No, no, no, no.” 46:53 · “Do it. I...” 46:57
Seen
suit, tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, social formality; style notes: close-up framing, high contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a suit speaks in a dimly lit interior while another person is partially visible behind him. The transcript includes a question about a woman's name and a refusal to engage further.

“What is your name, madam?” 46:50 · “Excuse me.” 46:51 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 46:58 (passage 46:43–47:12); US record: No renewal found

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