Tomb
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; 5 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 4:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 17 · shots 45–47. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- tomb (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2, frame:3, t:5:01
- People
- man in dark suit, tie, glasses, pocket square, middle-aged visible
- man in light shirt, dark pants, flat cap, mid-adult visible
- man in light shirt, dark pants, pith helmet, mid-adult visible
- man in light shirt, dark pants, pith helmet, mid-adult visible
- man in dark coat, hat, mid-adult visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit speaks near a microphone. [frame:1]
- Men in hats and work clothes rush through a dusty tomb entrance. [frame:2]
- Men continue moving through the tomb entrance, one shielding his face from dust. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “We found it! The tomb! My camera! I thought I'd be photographing it!” 5:11
- Seen
- microphone, pith helmets, flat cap, dust/smoke, tomb entrance
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: excited, urgent; themes: discovery, adventure, teamwork; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium and wide shots, dynamic movement in outdoor setting
A man in a suit speaks near a microphone while, in other shots, men in hats and work clothes rush through a dusty, outdoor tomb entrance. One man shouts for others to move aside as they discover the tomb and call for a camera.
“Back out of the way, boys. Back out of the way.” 5:03 · “Here it is.” 5:10 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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