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Svengali · Beat 80 · permalink

Private office

20:41–20:46 Registered 1931

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

Frame at 20:4220:42Frame at 20:4520:45

Play from 20:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 159–160. 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
  • blonde woman, wearing a dark double-breasted coat, seated visible
  • man with slicked-back hair, wearing a dark suit and tie, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is seated and smiling slightly. [frame:1]
  • The man stands facing the woman, smiling broadly. [frame:2]
Seen
dark double-breasted coat [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:2], ornate chair [frame:1], wall decoration [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: social interaction, formal greeting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, studio set with ornate decor

A woman with blonde hair in a dark coat is visible in a dimly lit interior; a man in a suit smiles at her. The transcript contains two instances of 'Hello' exchanged between them.

“Hello.” 20:43 · “Hello.” 20:45 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 20:42 (passage 20:41–20:46); US record: No renewal found

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