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Svengali · Beat 259 · permalink

Bedroom

1:04:32–1:04:40 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 1:04:361:04:36

Play from 1:04:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 141 · shots 511–511. 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
  • man, dark hair, wearing a heavy textured robe, leaning over visible
  • woman, light hair, lying on back, wearing a light garment with fur trim, looking up visible
Seen happening
  • The man leans over the woman on the bed. [frame:1]
Seen
ornate carved headboard [frame:1], plush pillows [frame:1], fur-trimmed garment [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, somber; themes: farewell, romantic tension, emotional farewell; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, ornate set design

A man leans over a woman lying on a bed; he speaks to her as she looks up. The setting is an ornate interior with carved headboard and plush pillows.

“I'm going to go.” 64:35 · “I do love you.” 64:37 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 1:04:36 (passage 1:04:32–1:04:40); US record: No renewal found

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