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Svengali · Beat 220 · permalink

Private office

58:16–58:19 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; 2 names 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 58:1758:17

Play from 58:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 451–451. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a top hat, formal coat, and white cravat, mustache, medium build visible
  • man with beard, wearing dark coat, partially visible on left visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat looks off-camera with a concerned expression. [frame:1]
Seen
top hat, formal coat, white cravat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: formal attire, concern; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, black and white, formal costume

A man in a top hat and formal coat is visible in a medium shot, with another man partially visible to his left. The transcript contains the single word 'Trouble.'

“Trouble.” 58:18 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 58:17 (passage 58:16–58:19); US record: No renewal found

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