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Two Weeks to Live · Beat 162 · permalink

Sidewalk

1:12:02–1:12:41 Registered 1943

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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:12:171:12:17Frame at 1:12:341:12:34Frame at 1:12:371:12:37Frame at 1:12:401:12:40

Play from 1:12:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 377–380. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, wearing a dark suit, bowler hat, and bow tie, holding a small object visible, audible
  • Mr. Peabody (named at t:72:02): man in dark suit and fedora, holding a briefcase visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand on a sidewalk and talk. [frame:1]
  • A blimp flies through the sky, trailing smoke. [frame:2]
  • The blimp continues flying, viewed from below. [frame:3]
  • The blimp is seen from a distance, flying over clouds. [frame:4]
Also said
“$17,500 net to me? That's right.” 72:15 · “in here five minutes” 72:31
Seen
briefcase, bowler hat, fedora, blimp, smoke trail
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: business negotiation, transportation, financial pressure; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots for dialogue, wide aerial shots for blimp; studio lighting on sidewalk scene, naturalistic sky in aerials

Two men in suits converse outdoors; one holds a briefcase. A sequence of aerial shots shows a blimp flying through clouds, trailing smoke. The dialogue mentions a $17,500 offer for a right-of-way and paying off stockholders.

“Mr. Peabody. Oh, am I glad to see you. I've just had an offer for your right-of-way.” 72:02 · “Yes, $20,000 minus legal fees and taxes.” 72:07 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 Two Weeks to Live (1943) at 1:12:17 (passage 1:12:02–1:12:41); US record: No renewal found

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