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Svengali · Beat 313 · permalink

Theatre

1:18:00–1:18:15 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 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 1:18:031:18:03Frame at 1:18:101:18:10

Play from 1:18:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 176 · shots 602–603. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with beard, wearing dark formal coat visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing light-colored dress or costume visible
  • man in dark suit walking on stage visible
  • orchestra members and audience in formal attire visible
Seen happening
  • A man touches a decorative lamp post while a woman sits behind him. [frame:1]
  • A man walks across a stage in front of an orchestra and seated audience. [frame:2]
Seen
decorative lamp post, orchestra music stands, stage arches, audience seating
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and formal; themes: performance, spectacle, formal presentation; style notes: static medium and wide shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging

A man in dark clothing stands near a decorative lamp post while a woman sits in the background; in another shot, a man walks on a stage before an orchestra and audience. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 1:18:03 (passage 1:18:00–1:18:15); US record: No renewal found

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