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The Dark Hour · Beat 155 · permalink

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1:02:45–1:02:47 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:461:02:46

Play from 1:02:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 370–370. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Hand wearing a white sleeve, suggesting formal or light-colored attire; no other features visible. visible
Seen happening
  • A hand digs into dark, granular ground with a small tool. [frame:1]
Seen
hand with white sleeve [frame:1], small tool (possibly a trowel or knife) [frame:1], dark granular ground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious; themes: manual labor, search, ground; style notes: close-up, high-contrast black-and-white, focused on a single action

A hand in a white sleeve uses a small tool to dig into dark, granular ground. No people, place, or time is identifiable from this single frame.

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 1:02:46 (passage 1:02:45–1:02:47); US record: No renewal found

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