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Svengali · Beat 46 · permalink

Private office

12:50–13:03 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 12:5412:54Frame at 13:0013:00

Play from 12:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 87–88. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing dark coat and hat, medium build visible
  • man with beard, wearing light shirt and dark trousers, standing visible
  • man seated in bathtub, partially covered by towel visible
Seen
hat, coat, bathtub, towel, table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: confrontation, intimacy, power dynamics; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static framing, medium shots emphasizing character positioning

Two scenes are shown: one in a dimly lit room with a man in a hat and coat standing near a table, and another in a bathroom where a man stands beside a bathtub while another is seated in it. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 12:54 (passage 12:50–13:03); US record: No renewal found

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