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58:06–58:10 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 58:0858:08

Play from 58:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 448–448. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in top hat and dark coat, holding a cane visible
  • man in top hat and dark coat, standing still visible
  • woman in light-colored gown, possibly with veil or headpiece visible
Seen
top hat [frame:1], cane [frame:1], wall sconce lamp [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], light gown [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, theatrical; themes: formal attire, movement in space, mysterious procession; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal costumes suggest stage or film staging

Three figures are seen in a dimly lit corridor: two men in top hats and coats, and a woman in a light gown. One man walks toward the camera while the other stands still, and the woman follows behind.

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 58:08 (passage 58:06–58:10); US record: No renewal found

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