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Svengali · Beat 40 · permalink

Private office

11:49–11:53 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 11:5111:51

Play from 11:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 77–77. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light trousers and a light shirt, seen from behind, bent over a table visible
  • person sitting in a metal tub, partially obscured, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen
metal tub [frame:1], wardrobe [frame:1], table with objects [frame:1], curtained doorway [frame:1], wall clock [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confined; themes: confinement, dominance, ritual; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, deep shadows, theatrical staging

A man in light trousers and a shirt is bent over a table in a dim room while another person sits in a metal tub. The room contains a wardrobe, a table, and a curtained doorway.

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 11:51 (passage 11:49–11:53); US record: No renewal found

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