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Svengali · Beat 275 · permalink

Private office

1:08:09–1:08:14 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 1:08:121:08:12

Play from 1:08:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 155 · shots 538–538. 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, older, white hair, dark coat, light shirt visible
  • man, younger, dark hair, dark coat, dark boots visible
Seen happening
  • Two men walk through a doorway into a room. [frame:1]
Seen
curtains [frame:1], desk [frame:1], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, staged; themes: entrance, formal meeting, interior space; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast studio lighting, theatrical framing with curtains framing the entrance

Two men in dark coats walk through a curtained doorway into a room with a desk visible on the left. The scene is shot in black and white with studio lighting and appears to be an interior set.

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 1:08:12 (passage 1:08:09–1:08:14); US record: No renewal found

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