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Svengali · Beat 235 · permalink

Street

59:56–1:00:10 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; 3 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 59:5759:57Frame at 1:00:001:00:00Frame at 1:00:061:00:06

Play from 59:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 123 · shots 473–475. 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
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
Period
1930s evidence: frame:1
People
  • Kathy (named at t:60:00): woman, young, wearing a white gown, tiara, and fur stole visible
  • Billy (named at t:60:00): man, middle-aged, in formal evening wear, standing near p1 visible
  • Melia (named at t:60:00): man, middle-aged, in formal evening wear, standing near p1 visible
Seen happening
  • The woman in white approaches a group of formally dressed people. [frame:2]
  • The woman in white and a man in evening wear smile at each other closely. [frame:3]
Seen
horse-drawn carriage, tiara, fur stole, formal evening wear
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reunion, formal; themes: reunion, social class, formal attire; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium and close-up shots emphasizing facial expressions and costume detail

A woman in a white gown and tiara approaches a group of formally dressed men and women at night; she greets them by name as they react with visible surprise and pleasure. The scene takes place outdoors near a horse-drawn carriage under artificial lighting.

“Billy! Kathy and Melia! Oh, it's so good to see you all again!” 60:00 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 59:57 (passage 59:56–1:00:10); US record: No renewal found

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