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Svengali · Beat 48 · permalink

Private office

13:09–13:14 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 13:1213:12

Play from 13:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 90–90. 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
  • bearded man, wearing a white garment, seated visible
  • man with long hair, wearing a white shirt and dark trousers, standing visible
Seen
white garment [frame:1], wooden furniture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, performance, transformation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film

Two men are in a dimly lit interior room; one is seated and adjusting a white garment while the other stands nearby. 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 13:12 (passage 13:09–13:14); US record: No renewal found

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