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51:07–51:15 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 51:1151:11

Play from 51:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 100 · shots 385–385. 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
People
  • man, dark suit, light-colored shirt, dark tie, dark hat visible
  • woman, dark dress, white sash or belt, dark hair visible
Seen
mannequins or props [frame:1], stacked boxes or crates [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious; themes: theatrical setting, cluttered environment; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static camera, high contrast lighting

A man in a dark suit and a woman in a dark dress with a white sash walk through a cluttered interior space filled with props or mannequins. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 51:11 (passage 51:07–51:15); US record: No renewal found

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