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Svengali · Beat 255 · permalink

Bedroom

1:03:47–1:04:02 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 1:03:521:03:52Frame at 1:04:001:04:00

Play from 1:03:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 137 · shots 504–505. 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
  • man with beard, wearing patterned robe visible
  • woman lying on bed, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • Man leans over woman on bed. [frame:1]
  • Man continues to lean over woman, gesturing with hand. [frame:2]
Also said
“Look at me in the eyes.” 63:59
Seen
bed with ornate headboard [frame:1], patterned robe [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, tense; themes: control, gaze, gender dynamics; style notes: close framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a patterned robe leans over a woman lying on a bed, speaking to her. The transcript includes lines about women's preferences and a command to look into his eyes.

“Nor anything else that other women like.” 63:52 · “except a little bit.” 63:55 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 1:03:52 (passage 1:03:47–1:04:02); US record: No renewal found

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