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Svengali · Beat 303 · permalink

Bar

1:15:36–1:16:00 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:15:371:15:37Frame at 1:15:441:15:44Frame at 1:15:521:15:52Frame at 1:15:571:15:57

Play from 1:15:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 170 · shots 587–591. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, light hair, medium build visible
  • man with long hair, dark coat, intense expression visible
  • man in dark coat and top hat, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit sits at a table with a bottle. [frame:1]
  • A man with long hair and a dark coat leans forward with an intense expression. [frame:2]
  • The man in the dark coat stands over another seated person in a crowded room. [frame:3]
  • A man in a top hat stands near a table where another man sits with a bottle and glass. [frame:4]
Also said
“in your philosophy.” 75:46 · “I'll feed those in.” 75:49
Seen
bottle [frame:1], wine glass [frame:4], top hat [frame:4], table [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and contemplative; themes: philosophical confrontation, power dynamics, social setting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical framing, period costume

A man in a suit sits at a table with a bottle while another man in a dark coat and top hat stands nearby; the setting appears to be a dimly lit public venue with other patrons. Dialogue references philosophy and unseen things, suggesting a moment of reflection or confrontation.

“Remember what I once told you.” 75:36 · “There are more things in heaven and earth than I dreamt of.” 75:39 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 1:15:37 (passage 1:15:36–1:16:00); US record: No renewal found

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