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The Dark Hour · Beat 35 · permalink

Living room

14:08–14:54 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:0914:09Frame at 14:1614:16Frame at 14:2814:28Frame at 14:4414:44

Play from 14:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 84–87. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • older man, balding, wearing dark suit and vest visible, audible
  • younger man, dark hair, wearing dark suit and tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Both men crouch to examine the floor. [frame:2]
  • One man points to a scratch on the floor. [frame:3]
  • Both men stand and look toward a small table by the sofa. [frame:4]
Also said
“That's interesting. Someone dropped a sharp instrument here.” 14:27 · “Where's the weapon?” 14:40
Seen
blood spots, wooden floor, globe, sofa, small table, candlestick
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: mystery, investigation, clue analysis; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, focused on floor details and character reactions

Two men examine a wooden floor with blood spots and a scratch, discussing the possibility of a dropped sharp instrument. One man points to a small table by a sofa, suggesting it may hold a weapon.

“How do you suppose that blood got there? Did you expect to find it?” 14:08 · “Carson's wound never bled like that.” 14:18 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 14:09 (passage 14:08–14:54); US record: No renewal found

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