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Svengali · Beat 264 · permalink

Private office

1:05:24–1:05:33 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:291:05:29

Play from 1:05:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 145 · shots 518–518. 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, mustache, wearing top hat and formal coat visible, audible
Also said
“Bengali and his company have cancelled the engagement and gone away.” 65:30
Seen
top hat, formal coat, American flag
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: cancellation, absence, formal communication; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume

A man in formal attire speaks about a cancelled concert. The transcript indicates Bengali and his company have left, canceling the event.

“Did you get tickets for the concert tonight?” 65:25 · “There won't be any concert tonight.” 65:27 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 1:05:29 (passage 1:05:24–1:05:33); US record: No renewal found

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