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Svengali · Beat 270 · permalink

Theatre

1:07:13–1:07:18 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 1:07:161:07:16

Play from 1:07:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 151 · shots 529–529. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • audience members seated in rows, mostly in dark attire, backs to camera visible
  • musicians on stage, seated behind instruments, wearing formal attire visible
Seen
{'item': 'orchestra instruments including pianos and percussion', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'heavy stage curtains', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'rows of theatre seats', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, expectant; themes: performance, audience, theatrical presentation; style notes: wide static shot, high contrast lighting, stage centered, audience in shadow

A wide shot shows an audience seated in a theatre facing a stage where musicians are positioned behind instruments. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 1:07:16 (passage 1:07:13–1:07:18); US record: No renewal found

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