Bedroom
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 12:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 83–86. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:4
- People
- bearded man, shirtless, in a bathtub visible
- Svengali (named at t:12:33): man with beard and mustache, wearing a white shirt and dark trousers visible
- Kathy (named at t:12:32): unseen speaker, referred to as 'Kathy' audible, mentioned
- Seen happening
- A man sits in a bathtub holding a bottle. [frame:1]
- A man in a white shirt stands and holds a small object. [frame:2]
- The man in the bathtub reaches out of the tub. [frame:3]
- The man in the shirt stands near a wardrobe while the man in the tub looks up at him. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Here, Nuffy. Hide my purse before his music melts my scotch heart.” 12:39 · “I didn't want to lie to him, but if I have any money on me, I cannot resist him.” 12:46
- Seen
- bathtub [frame:1], bottle [frame:1], wardrobe [frame:4], mirror [frame:2], towel [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: power dynamics, temptation, dominance; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, confined space
A man is seen in a bathtub while another man in a shirt stands nearby; dialogue references 'Svengali' and a request to hide a purse. No named characters are visually identifiable beyond the spoken reference to Svengali.
“Kathy” 12:32 · “Who's that? It sounds like Svengali.” 12:33 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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