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Svengali · Beat 96 · permalink

Private office

26:00–26:11 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 26:0226:02Frame at 26:0826:08

Play from 26:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 43 · shots 211–212. 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
  • woman with blonde hair and bangs, wearing dark clothing visible
  • Truby (named at t:26:05): man with short dark hair, clean-shaven, wearing dark suit visible
  • man with long dark hair and full beard, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman leans over a man who is smiling. [frame:1]
  • A bearded man stares intensely. [frame:2]
Also said
“She'll be proud of you, Truby. Proud of you as I am.” 26:05
Seen
dark clothing [frame:1], beard [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and tense; themes: romance, possession, dramatic confrontation; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film

A woman leans over a man who is smiling; another man with a beard stares intensely. The transcript mentions marriage, England, and a mother's pride.

“When we're married,” 26:00 · “I want to take you to England and to my mother.” 26:02 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 26:02 (passage 26:00–26:11); US record: No renewal found

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