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Svengali · Beat 92 · permalink

Kitchen

24:52–24:57 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:5424:54

Play from 24:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 199–199. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • hand visible, no other features visible
Seen happening
  • A hand cuts a shape into dough with a knife. [frame:1]
Seen
dough [frame:1], knife [frame:1], floured surface [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: food preparation, manual labor; style notes: close-up, high-contrast lighting, monochrome

A hand uses a knife to cut a shape into dough on a floured surface. No people are named or audible, and no location context is visible.

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 24:54 (passage 24:52–24:57); US record: No renewal found

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