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Svengali · Beat 95 · permalink

Kitchen

25:37–26:00 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:4125:41Frame at 25:4825:48Frame at 25:5325:53Frame at 25:5725:57

Play from 25:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 207–210. 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
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing a dark top and light skirt visible
  • man seated, wearing dark jacket and light trousers visible
  • Yeshua (named at t:25:51): man with dark beard and long hair, wearing dark clothing visible, audible
  • man standing in doorway, dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman feeds a seated man with a spoon. [frame:1]
  • A bearded man leans against a doorway, watching. [frame:2]
  • The seated man embraces the woman. [frame:3]
  • Close-up of the bearded man's face. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, Yeshua!” 25:51 · “You're the sweetest thing I've ever known.” 25:57
Seen
spoon [frame:1], kitchen table [frame:1], staircase [frame:1], doorway [frame:2], curtain [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, tense; themes: domestic intimacy, observation, emotional intensity; style notes: static medium shots and close-ups, high-contrast lighting, theatrical framing

A woman feeds a seated man in a dim interior while another man watches from a doorway; the seated man later embraces her. A bearded man is shown in close-up with an intense expression. Dialogue includes compliments and an exclamation of 'Yeshua!'.

“Good?” 25:44 · “Good as mother makes.” 25:48 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 25:41 (passage 25:37–26:00); US record: No renewal found

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