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1:17:50–1:17:54 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 1:17:521:17:52

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 175 · shots 600–600. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior)
People
  • woman, light-colored dress, headband, fair hair, slender build visible
  • man, dark coat, beard, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • The man holds the woman's hand while they face each other. [frame:1]
Seen
headband [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate; themes: human connection, drama; style notes: close two-shot, high contrast lighting, black and white film

A man and a woman stand close, facing each other in a dimly lit interior. The man holds the woman's hand while she looks at him.

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 1:17:52 (passage 1:17:50–1:17:54); US record: No renewal found

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