Private office

58:53–59:21 Registered 1936

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

59:07

Play from 58:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 353–353. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1

Seen happening

A clock is visible on a textured surface. [frame:1]

Also said

“Don't talk, not sound.” 59:01

Seen

clock, telephone

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: silence, experimentation, suspense; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing on objects, minimal visible space

A close-up shows a clock on a textured surface with a dark background. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about an experiment and silence.

“See, what's the idea?” 58:57 · “That's the experiment.” 58:59 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 59:07 (passage 58:53–59:21); US record: No renewal found

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Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/The.Dark.Hour/b146"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/The.Dark.Hour/0353.webp" alt="Frame from The Dark Hour (1936) at 59:07 (passage 58:53–59:21); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>The Dark Hour (1936), 58:53–59:21. Internet Archive copy The.Dark.Hour; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "The Dark Hour (1936), 58:53–59:21", https://publicreel.org/moment/The.Dark.Hour/b146, from Internet Archive item The.Dark.Hour, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Private office

Evidence and details

The record

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