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Svengali · Beat 29 · permalink

Bedroom

7:47–8:06 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:537:53Frame at 8:038:03

Play from 7:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 50–51. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a patterned dress, appears distressed visible, audible
  • Fitzgerald (named at t:7:51): man, seen from behind, dark clothing, silhouette visible
Seen happening
  • The woman stands near a bed while the man faces her. [frame:1]
  • The woman is seen in a doorway, holding something, looking at the man. [frame:2]
Also said
“Take your eyes off me!” 7:57
Seen
bed [frame:1], patterned dress [frame:1], doorway [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, power dynamics, personal space; style notes: high-contrast lighting, silhouetted figures, tight framing on emotional expressions

A woman in a patterned dress stands near a bed while a man in silhouette faces her; she appears distressed and speaks to him. The setting is dimly lit with minimal furnishings, suggesting a private room.

“I'm not.” 7:49 · “Take your eyes off me, Fitzgerald.” 7:51 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 7:53 (passage 7:47–8:06); US record: No renewal found

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