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1:07:49–1:08:07 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:541:07:54Frame at 1:08:031:08:03

Play from 1:07:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 153 · shots 535–536. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with receding hairline, dark coat, visible from behind in frame 1; in frame 2, he has a gaunt face, prominent cheekbones, dark eyes, and a thin beard visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark coat walks toward a door marked 'CAMINO'. [frame:1]
  • The man turns to face the camera with a stern expression. [frame:2]
Seen
door with sign 'CAMINO', dark coat, dark coat
On screen
CAMINO
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: authority, anticipation, mystery; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial features and shadows, typical of early 1930s studio cinematography

A man in a dark coat walks toward a door marked 'CAMINO' and then turns to face the camera with a stern expression. The transcript indicates someone is asking if preparations are complete and mentions waiting for a council to begin.

“made up yet? They are waiting for the council to begin. Waiting is good for such a refrain.” 67:58 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 1:07:54 (passage 1:07:49–1:08:07); US record: No renewal found

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