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Svengali · Beat 42 · permalink

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11:56–11:59 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 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 11:5811:58

Play from 11:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 79–79. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and coat, facing upward visible
  • man with long hair and beard, wearing a dark hat and coat, looking down visible
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, national stereotype; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film

Two men in hats face each other in a dim interior; one speaks about English people getting dirty quickly. No names are spoken, and no objects or on-screen text are visible.

“These Englanders get dirty very quickly.” 11:56 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 11:58 (passage 11:56–11:59); US record: No renewal found

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