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The Dark Hour · Beat 135 · permalink

Living room

53:35–53:43 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:3953:39

Play from 53:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 330–330. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, short dark hair, medium build visible
  • woman in checkered dress, styled hair, medium build visible
  • Jeff (named at t:53:38): older man in dark suit, white hair, medium build visible
Seen
framed picture [frame:1], wooden furniture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal; themes: social interaction, interruption; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, black and white

A man and a woman stand facing each other while another man stands nearby; one man speaks. The setting is an interior room with framed art and furniture.

“Excuse us, Jeff.” 53:38 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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Frame from The Dark Hour (1936) at 53:39 (passage 53:35–53:43); US record: No renewal found

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