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Svengali · Beat 318 · permalink

Theatre

1:19:16–1:19:33 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 1:19:171:19:17Frame at 1:19:211:19:21Frame at 1:19:281:19:28Frame at 1:19:311:19:31

Play from 1:19:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 176 · shots 621–628. 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, frame:4
People
  • man with long hair, beard, and dark coat visible
  • woman in light-colored, short-sleeved dress with embellishments visible
  • figure in dark coat, head covered or bowed visible
Seen happening
  • A man with long hair and a beard looks downward. [frame:1]
  • The same man turns his head to the side, smiling slightly. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a light dress stands in a spotlight with hands near her face. [frame:3]
  • A figure in dark clothing is slumped over a railing. [frame:4]
Seen
music stand with sheet music [frame:2], railing or barrier [frame:4], spotlight [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and tense; themes: performance, emotional distress, theatrical spectacle; style notes: high-contrast lighting, close-ups and medium shots, theatrical staging

A man with long hair and a beard is shown in close-up and profile, followed by a woman in a light dress standing in a spotlight, then a figure slumped over a railing. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the 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 1:19:17 (passage 1:19:16–1:19:33); US record: No renewal found

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