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Svengali · Beat 216 · permalink

Street

57:57–58:06 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:5857:58Frame at 58:0358:03

Play from 57:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 446–447. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, standing on platform, gesturing visible
  • man in light-colored robe or costume, standing to right visible
  • crowd of men in dark coats and hats, some visible behind horse visible
  • Cushy (named at t:57:58): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark coat stands on a platform and gestures toward a crowd. [frame:1]
  • A horse-drawn carriage is positioned in front of the platform. [frame:1]
  • A crowd of men in dark coats and hats stands behind the horse. [frame:2]
Seen
horse-drawn carriage, platform, archway, crowd of men in hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic; themes: command, fate, public spectacle; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, theatrical staging

A man in a dark coat stands on a platform addressing a crowd near a horse-drawn carriage in a tunnel-like archway. The transcript includes a command to 'Cushy' and references to horseback and doom.

“Cushy, let me see you. Do it, do it, do it. A little bigger on horseback. Right into his doom.” 57:58 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 57:58 (passage 57:57–58:06); US record: No renewal found

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