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Svengali · Beat 295 · permalink

Restaurant

1:12:22–1:12:44 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; 3 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 1:12:291:12:29Frame at 1:12:401:12:40

Play from 1:12:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 169 · shots 567–568. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man wearing a dark coat and top hat, standing, gesturing with right hand visible, audible
  • man with light-colored hair, wearing a dark suit, seated at a table, hands resting on table visible
  • multiple background figures, some wearing hats, seated at tables visible
Seen happening
  • The standing man gestures with his right hand while speaking. [frame:1]
  • The seated man listens with his hands on the table. [frame:2]
Seen
top hat [frame:1, frame:2], small round table [frame:2], chairs [frame:1, frame:2], piano [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, social interaction, negotiation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging

A man in a top hat stands and speaks to another man seated at a small table in a crowded room. The standing man gestures while speaking, and the seated man listens with his hands on the table.

“Come, your friend. I did not come here to fight. Do you expect me to sit down and talk quietly? I think it would be as well for all of us. I think you will agree with me. After I explain.” 72:29 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 1:12:29 (passage 1:12:22–1:12:44); US record: No renewal found

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