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Svengali · Beat 317 · permalink

Theatre

1:19:02–1:19:16 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 1:19:031:19:03Frame at 1:19:081:19:08Frame at 1:19:131:19:13

Play from 1:19:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 176 · shots 618–620. 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 slicked-back hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie visible
  • older man with mustache, wearing a dark coat and white gloves, standing in a crowd visible
  • woman with styled hair, wearing a light dress with puffed sleeves and a dark necklace visible
Seen
bottle, railing, necklace
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic; themes: performance, spectacle, individual focus; style notes: studio-lit close-ups and medium shots; high contrast black-and-white cinematography; theatrical framing

A man in a suit sits at a table with a bottle; another man in a coat stands in a crowded venue; a woman in a dress and necklace is shown in a close-up. 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 1:19:03 (passage 1:19:02–1:19:16); US record: No renewal found

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