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The Dark Hour · Beat 117 · permalink

Street

46:43–46:47 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:4546:45

Play from 46:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 292–292. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figure in dark coat, standing near fire truck visible
  • figure on top of fire truck, operating spotlight visible
  • figure in dark coat, standing near right side of frame visible
Seen happening
  • A fire truck with a spotlight is positioned on a street with hoses on the ground and several figures standing nearby. [frame:1]
Seen
fire truck [frame:1], spotlight [frame:1], hoses [frame:1], coats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, urgent; themes: emergency response, urban night, public service; style notes: high-contrast lighting, low-angle framing, night scene with artificial illumination

A dark, outdoor night scene shows a fire truck with a spotlight and several figures in coats standing nearby. Hoses lie on the ground, and the lighting suggests an emergency response.

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 The Dark Hour (1936) at 46:45 (passage 46:43–46:47); US record: No renewal found

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