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Svengali · Beat 74 · permalink

Street

19:33–19:53 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:3519:35Frame at 19:4119:41Frame at 19:4819:48Frame at 19:5219:52

Play from 19:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 34 · shots 148–151. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man in light-colored long coat and hat visible
  • man in dark coat and hat visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand in a room with a piano and easel. [frame:1]
  • The two men walk toward a wooden door. [frame:2]
  • The two men descend a staircase. [frame:3]
  • The two men walk on a cobblestone street past a café with outdoor seating. [frame:4]
Seen
piano, easel, wooden door, staircase with railing, cobblestone street, café awning
On screen
TCM
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or hurried; themes: movement, urban setting, duo journey; style notes: static camera, high-contrast lighting, medium shots transitioning to wide exterior, period costume

Two men in coats and hats move through an interior space and then outside onto a street. The setting transitions from a room with a piano to an outdoor café area with other pedestrians.

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 19:35 (passage 19:33–19:53); US record: No renewal found

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