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Svengali · Beat 251 · permalink

Bedroom

1:01:35–1:02:08 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:511:01:51

Play from 1:01:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 137 · shots 495–495. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Liebchen (named at t:61:57): man, dark hair and beard, wearing ornate robe visible, audible
  • Trilby (named at t:61:36): woman, lying down, light hair, partially covered by bedding visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man kneels beside a woman lying on a bed. [frame:1]
Also said
“You did.” 61:46 · “Except love me.” 61:54
Seen
ornate bed with carved headboard [frame:1], fluffy white pillows or bedding [frame:1], robe with patterned fabric [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: unrequited love, debt and gratitude, emotional manipulation; style notes: close framing, high-contrast lighting, ornate set design

A man kneels beside a woman lying on a bed in an ornate room; dialogue reveals a tense emotional exchange about gratitude and unrequited love. The woman acknowledges the man's past care but does not return his romantic feelings.

“Haven't I been good to you, Trilby?” 61:36 · “Who gave you back your life?” 61:42 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 1:01:51 (passage 1:01:35–1:02:08); US record: No renewal found

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