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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; 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 7:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 61–63. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
- People
- man wearing a pith helmet and outdoor jacket, visible in frame:1 visible
- man wearing a suit and tie, with glasses, visible in frame:2 visible
- Frazier (named at t:7:43): unseen person, audible in transcript lines audible
- Louise (named at t:7:42): unseen person, audible in transcript lines audible
- Father (named at t:7:44): unseen person, audible in transcript lines audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a pith helmet adjusts his hat while standing next to another man. [frame:1]
- A man in a suit stands in front of a plain background. [frame:2]
- A sarcophagus is shown in shadow with a beam of light across it. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “I only know that our troubles began from that moment.” 7:56 · “A violent windstorm descended upon us...” 7:58
- Seen
- pith helmet [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:2], sarcophagus [frame:3], microphone [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: exploration, curse, discovery; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, dramatic shadows, static medium shots
Two men in outdoor gear and one man in a suit are shown in separate shots; a sarcophagus is visible in a third shot. Dialogue mentions finding the sarcophagus, a curse, and a windstorm threatening a camp.
“I found it, the sarcophagus. In where? In here. Come on. I'm sorry. Oh, well, let me in. Go.” 7:44 · “Our Chinese bearers had warned us of a curse on the two.” 7:51 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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