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Svengali · Beat 180 · permalink

Private office

47:23–47:39 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 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 47:2747:27Frame at 47:3547:35

Play from 47:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 360–361. 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, dark clothing, beard, wearing a hat visible, audible
  • woman, blonde hair, light-colored dress visible
Seen
hat [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], light-colored dress [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: departure, dramatic confrontation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, close framing, static camera

A man in dark clothing speaks while a woman with blonde hair stands beside him in a dimly lit interior. The man states his intention to leave.

“I'm going to go.” 47:30 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 47:27 (passage 47:23–47:39); US record: No renewal found

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