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Svengali · Beat 93 · permalink

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24:57–25:13 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:5924:59Frame at 25:0725:07

Play from 24:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 200–201. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with blonde, shoulder-length wavy hair, wearing a dark top visible
  • Truby (named at t:24:58): man with dark, neatly combed hair, wearing a dark suit and light-colored shirt visible
Seen happening
  • The woman smiles while looking at the man [frame:1]
  • The man leans closer to the woman [frame:2]
Also said
“You do mean it?” 25:03 · “Don't you know?” 25:08
Seen
dark suit [frame:1], light-colored shirt collar [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate; themes: romantic declaration, emotional intimacy; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, focused on facial expressions

A man and a woman are in close proximity, speaking to each other. The woman smiles as the man leans in toward her.

“Truby!” 24:58 · “You do love me.” 25:01 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 24:59 (passage 24:57–25:13); US record: No renewal found

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