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Svengali · Beat 258 · permalink

Bedroom

1:04:18–1:04:32 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:04:211:04:21Frame at 1:04:241:04:24Frame at 1:04:291:04:29

Play from 1:04:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 140 · shots 508–510. 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, frame:2
People
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a light headband, lying down visible
  • man with dark hair and beard, wearing a quilted vest and patterned jacket visible
Seen happening
  • A man leans over a woman who is lying down. [frame:2]
  • The woman has her eyes closed. [frame:1]
  • The woman opens her eyes and smiles slightly. [frame:3]
Seen
ornate headboard or wall panel [frame:2], bed with patterned bedding [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, suspenseful; themes: hypnosis, control, awakening; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A woman lies down while a man leans over her; she opens her eyes after being told to. The setting appears to be a bedroom with ornate decor.

“Open your eyes.” 64:19 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 1:04:21 (passage 1:04:18–1:04:32); US record: No renewal found

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