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47:39–47:57 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; 3 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 47:4847:48

Play from 47:39 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 94 · shots 362–362. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Maestro Spengard (named at t:47:46): not visible mentioned
  • Madame Svengali (named at frame:1): not visible mentioned
  • M. Svengali (named at frame:1): not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • A newspaper clipping announces a Paris premiere featuring Madame Svengali and M. Svengali's orchestra. [frame:1]
Seen
newspaper clipping [frame:1]
On screen
PREMIÈRE REPRÉSENTATION À PARIS de la célèbre artiste MADAME SVENGALI L'idole de Berlin, Vienne, Rome, Madrid, Saint-Pétersbourg, se fera entendre dans une série de concerts accompagnée par le grand Maître M. SVENGALI et son Orchestre Tzigane.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, informational; themes: publicity, performance, cultural identity; style notes: static shot of printed text; high-contrast black-and-white; no camera movement or staging

A newspaper clipping announces a Paris premiere featuring Madame Svengali, described as an idol of multiple European cities, accompanied by Maestro Svengali and his orchestra. The transcript mentions Maestro Spengard and refers to his wife as a beautiful Polish woman he met in Russia.

“Maestro Spengard. This is a marvelous change since we saw him last. It's been just five years. Wonderful. His wife is a very beautiful woman. Didn't you say that she was a Polish woman that he picked up in Russia? Yeah, that's what I heard.” 47:46 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 47:48 (passage 47:39–47:57); US record: No renewal found

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