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Svengali · Beat 211 · permalink

Theatre

56:32–56:35 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 56:3456:34

Play from 56:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 431–431. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing white suit and dark boots, holding a paper visible
  • woman, back to camera, light-colored dress, curly hair visible
  • audience members, seated, blurred visible
Seen
paper [frame:1], stage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic; themes: performance, audience, theatrical presentation; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, stage framing

A man in white stands on a stage holding a paper while a woman with her back to the camera faces him; an audience is visible behind them. The scene is lit by stage lights and appears to be a performance or presentation.

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 56:34 (passage 56:32–56:35); US record: No renewal found

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