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Svengali · Beat 23 · permalink

Bedroom

5:02–5:32 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:095:09Frame at 5:245:24

Play from 5:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 36–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, seated, wearing a patterned dress with ruffles, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
  • man, standing, dark coat, beard, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man stands over the seated woman in a dim room. [frame:1]
  • The man's face is shown in close-up, bearded, looking down. [frame:2]
Also said
“How much has he left you...” 5:30 · “You are comfortable, Luz? Yes.” 5:07
Seen
bed [frame:1], lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: dominance, confession, marital rupture; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing, high contrast shadows, static camera

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit room; the woman says she has left her husband. The man, standing over her, asks how much her husband left her.

“I've left my husband.” 5:16 · “For good.” 5:22 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 5:09 (passage 5:02–5:32); US record: No renewal found

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