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Svengali · Beat 296 · permalink

Restaurant

1:12:44–1:13:22 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 1:12:561:12:56Frame at 1:13:131:13:13Frame at 1:13:211:13:21

Play from 1:12:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 169 · shots 569–571. 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
People
  • man in dark suit, light hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in top hat, dark coat, thin face visible, audible
Also said
“Some champagne will clear the atmosphere. Garçon.” 73:04 · “The major champagne that you have to do. Now we can talk like old friends. What do you want? The alarm. Nothing from you.” 73:11
Seen
top hat, table, chairs, crowd in background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and theatrical; themes: power dynamics, social ritual, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, stage-like set with background extras

Two men are seated at a table in a crowded venue; one in a top hat speaks while the other listens. The speaker requests champagne and suggests they talk as old friends, then mentions 'the alarm' and 'nothing from you.'

“Sit down, sit down.” 72:59 · “Have a break.” 73:01 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 1:12:56 (passage 1:12:44–1:13:22); US record: No renewal found

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