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Svengali · Beat 314 · permalink

Theatre

1:18:15–1:18:26 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 1:18:161:18:16Frame at 1:18:191:18:19Frame at 1:18:231:18:23

Play from 1:18:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 176 · shots 604–606. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, holding a cane, medium build visible
  • seated audience members, some in hats, varied attire visible
  • man in top hat, back to camera visible
Seen
cane [frame:1], wooden chairs and tables [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], top hat [frame:3], stage area with microphone [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and atmospheric; themes: performance, audience, urban nightlife; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shots, static camera, period costumes

A man in a dark coat and hat stands holding a cane in a crowded, dimly lit venue with wooden chairs and tables. The setting appears to be an indoor performance space or cabaret with an audience seated and a stage area visible.

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 1:18:16 (passage 1:18:15–1:18:26); US record: No renewal found

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