Living room

53:31–53:35 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

53:33

Play from 53:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 329–329. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1

People

elderly woman, wearing a striped collared blouse and plaid skirt, hair pulled back visible

Seen

door with knob [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1], curtained window [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: still, quiet; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, black and white

An elderly woman stands indoors in a room with a door and framed picture. No dialogue or action is visible in the single frame provided.

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 53:33 (passage 53:31–53:35); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/The.Dark.Hour/b134.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/The.Dark.Hour/b134"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/The.Dark.Hour/0329.webp" alt="Frame from The Dark Hour (1936) at 53:33 (passage 53:31–53:35); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>The Dark Hour (1936), 53:31–53:35. Internet Archive copy The.Dark.Hour; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "The Dark Hour (1936), 53:31–53:35", https://publicreel.org/moment/The.Dark.Hour/b134, from Internet Archive item The.Dark.Hour, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Living room

Evidence and details

The record

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