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Svengali · Beat 263 · permalink

Private office

1:05:20–1:05:24 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:221:05:22

Play from 1:05:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 144 · shots 517–517. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seated, wearing dark suit, light shirt, and tie; medium build, middle-aged visible
  • man seated, wearing dark suit and light shirt; medium build, middle-aged, gesturing with right hand visible
Seen
piano [frame:1], easel with painting [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], table [frame:1], candles on stand [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, dramatic; themes: confrontation, artistic space, dialogue-driven scene; style notes: high-contrast lighting, deep shadows, static medium shot, theatrical staging

Two men sit in a dimly lit, cluttered room with a piano and easels; one man gestures while speaking. The setting appears to be an artist's studio or private office with heavy shadows and theatrical lighting.

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 1:05:22 (passage 1:05:20–1:05:24); US record: No renewal found

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