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Svengali · Beat 8 · permalink

Private office

1:57–2:03 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 2:002:00

Play from 1:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 13–13. 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
  • silhouetted man, wearing dark suit, standing, medium build visible
  • woman seated, wearing light dress and hat, fair hair visible visible
  • man in background, dark suit, standing visible
Seen
{'item': 'chair', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'hat', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'suit', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'desk or table', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: power dynamics, mystery; style notes: high-contrast lighting, silhouetted figures, static medium shot

A man in silhouette stands near a seated woman in a dimly lit room; another man is visible in the background. 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 2:00 (passage 1:57–2:03); US record: No renewal found

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