Ocean
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 25:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 231–233. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- ocean (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
- People
- sailor in dark uniform and white hat, visible in small boat visible
- sailor in dark uniform and white hat, visible in small boat, holding a net visible
- Seen happening
- Two sailors in a small boat approach a floating object in the ocean. [frame:1]
- The floating object is shown closer, partially submerged. [frame:2]
- A sailor in the boat holds a net and looks toward the camera. [frame:3]
- Seen
- small boat [frame:1], floating object [frame:1], net [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: naval duty, encounter with unknown object; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, natural lighting, open water setting
Two sailors in a small boat on open water approach a floating object; one sailor reacts to its condition. The scene is shot from multiple angles, including a close-up of a sailor holding a net.
“Boy, is that thing foul.” 25:31 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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