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The Dark Hour · Beat 154 · permalink

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1:02:36–1:02:45 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; 4 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 1:02:411:02:41

Play from 1:02:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 369–369. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, balding, wearing a dark suit and hat visible
  • Bruce (named at t:62:40): man wearing a fedora and dark coat, holding a small object visible
  • man in a fedora and dark coat, standing to the right visible
  • man in a dark suit and hat, partially visible behind p2 visible
Also said
“Bruce, pull it up and let's have a look at it.” 62:40
Seen
floral arrangements [frame:1], small object held by p2 [frame:1], hats (fedora and others) [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or investigative; themes: mystery, inspection, group confrontation; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, formal attire suggests 1930s studio production

A group of men in hats and suits stand near floral arrangements while one is instructed to pull something up for inspection. No names are spoken, and the setting appears to be an interior space with decorative plants.

“That steak?” 62:36 · “That wouldn't help it any.” 62:37 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 1:02:41 (passage 1:02:36–1:02:45); US record: No renewal found

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