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Svengali · Beat 75 · permalink

Street

19:53–20:28 Registered 1931

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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:5619:56Frame at 20:0120:01Frame at 20:1620:16

Play from 19:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 152–154. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with longish hair, wearing a light-colored coat, holding a dark coat visible
  • man with mustache, wearing a hat and dark coat, standing close to p1 visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, visible in background of frame 1 and 3 visible
  • man in light coat and hat, visible in background of frame 3 visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a coat while talking to another man in a crowd. [frame:1]
  • A street scene with pedestrians and buildings is shown. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand close together, one holding a coat, surrounded by others. [frame:3]
Also said
“By the way, where did you hide my pasty?” 20:18 · “I put it safely away. In the pocket of those trousers.” 20:21
Seen
coat, hat, building with sign 'DEFENSE D'APOTHECIE', cobblestone street, pasty (mentioned, not visible)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted, conversational; themes: misplaced items, humor through dialogue, urban setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, crowd framing

Two men converse in a crowded outdoor setting while one holds a coat; a separate shot shows a street with pedestrians and buildings. The dialogue references hiding a suit and a pasty in trousers.

“It seems the joke's on me. And your new suit's on here?” 20:00 · “I hid your suit like I hid my bus.” 20:13 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 19:56 (passage 19:53–20:28); US record: No renewal found

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