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Nosferatu_most_complete_version_93_mins. · Beat 185 · permalink

Castle

28:42–29:00 Released 1922

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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.

Frame at 28:4328:43Frame at 28:4528:45Frame at 28:5128:51Frame at 28:5928:59

Play from 28:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 120 · shots 413–418. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
castle (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark silhouette, wearing a long coat or cloak, carrying something in hand visible
Seen happening
  • A figure is visible at the bottom of stone steps leading to a castle entrance. [frame:1]
  • The figure walks up the path toward the castle entrance. [frame:3]
  • The figure is closer, now in the foreground, partially obscuring the view of the castle. [frame:4]
Seen
castle [frame:1], tree [frame:1], path [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: isolation, approach, mystery; style notes: static camera, circular vignette framing, high contrast lighting, silent film aesthetic

A figure walks toward a stone building with steps and an arched entrance, viewed through a circular frame. The scene is static, with the figure moving closer across the sequence.

The record

Published 1922, so any US term has expired; no US registration under this title appears in the catalog. The status is a calculation from the date, not a finding about a record. 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 Nosferatu_most_complete_version_93_mins. (1922) at 28:43 (passage 28:42–29:00)

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