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The Dark Hour · Beat 160 · permalink

Living room

1:04:42–1:05:05 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:04:471:04:47Frame at 1:04:571:04:57Frame at 1:05:041:05:04

Play from 1:04:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 68 · shots 383–385. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in a patterned suit and tie, mid-30s, medium build visible, audible
  • older man, bald, in dark suit, seen from behind or in profile visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit looks concerned while being questioned. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand near a fireplace, one facing away, the other observing. [frame:2]
  • The man in the suit holds a cigarette and buttons his vest. [frame:3]
Also said
“You'd already opened the gas jet in the library that day you called about the fence.” 64:59 · “Hmm?” 65:03
Seen
fireplace, painting, lamp, cigarette, suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and interrogative; themes: suspicion, interrogation, domestic space as crime scene; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal interior setting

A man in a suit is questioned about a gas jet and rubber tubing, while another man observes him near a fireplace. The man being questioned later holds a cigarette and buttons his vest.

“is a small hole recently bored” 64:45 · “leading to your garage. And there were yards of rubber tubing in the back seat of your car.” 64:47 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 1:04:47 (passage 1:04:42–1:05:05); US record: No renewal found

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