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20:46–20:53 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 20:4920:49

Play from 20:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 161–161. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark suit, light shirt, tie, short hair, average build visible
  • woman, dark coat with fur collar, white hem, light-colored hair, slim build visible
Seen
easel with painting [frame:1], dark wooden cabinet [frame:1], chairs and tables in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or formal; themes: artistic setting, confrontation or dialogue; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

A man in a suit stands facing a woman in a dark coat with a white hem; they are in a dimly lit room with canvases and furniture. 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 20:49 (passage 20:46–20:53); US record: No renewal found

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