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Svengali · Beat 60 · permalink

Living room

15:22–15:44 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:3315:33

Play from 15:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 119–119. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark suit, hat, carrying a hat in hand visible
Seen happening
  • A person enters a room carrying a hat. [frame:1]
Seen
cabinet with plates and bottles [frame:1], canvases leaning against wall [frame:1], hat in hand [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: interruption, formal address, domestic space; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period interior

A person in dark clothing enters a room carrying a hat. The room contains a cabinet with plates and bottles, and canvases lean against the wall.

“Hello, Gecko.” 15:39 · “Please.” 15:40 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 15:33 (passage 15:22–15:44); US record: No renewal found

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