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Svengali · Beat 253 · permalink

Private office

1:02:27–1:02:40 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 1:02:321:02:32Frame at 1:02:391:02:39

Play from 1:02:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 137 · shots 499–500. 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 with dark beard, wearing dark coat over light shirt visible
  • woman with light hair, wearing light dress, lying on cushioned surface visible
Seen happening
  • A man is shown in close-up, looking downward. [frame:1]
  • A woman is shown lying on a cushioned surface, looking up. [frame:2]
Also said
“What is he, Liebschen?” 62:35 · “With his silly paints in one hand...” 62:38
Seen
dark coat, cushioned surface
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and contemplative; themes: identity, perception, power dynamics; style notes: close-up framing, high contrast lighting, static camera

A man with a beard and dark coat is shown in a close-up, followed by a shot of a woman lying on a cushioned surface. The transcript includes a character being addressed as 'Sir Galahad' and a question about his identity and actions.

“Sir Galahad.” 62:27 · “His stiff-necked little belief.” 62:31 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 1:02:32 (passage 1:02:27–1:02:40); US record: No renewal found

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