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Svengali · Beat 209 · permalink

Theatre

55:54–56:00 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:5755:57

Play from 55:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 429–429. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with dark beard and hair, wearing ornate light-colored uniform with fur collar and medals, holding baton visible
Seen happening
  • A man in costume reacts with surprise. [frame:1]
Seen
baton [frame:1], ornate uniform with fur collar and medals [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic; themes: performance, reaction; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, theatrical costume

A man in ornate costume holds a baton and reacts with surprise. The audience is visible in the dark background.

“Oh, no.” 55:55 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 55:57 (passage 55:54–56:00); US record: No renewal found

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