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The Dark Hour · Beat 61 · permalink

Laboratory

26:16–26:18 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 26:1726:17

Play from 26:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 155–155. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
laboratory (laboratory, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, balding, medium build visible
  • person seen from back, wearing light-colored shirt, standing near window visible
Seen
glass beakers and flasks [frame:1], metal coffee percolator [frame:1], large window with multiple panes [frame:1], wooden table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or focused; themes: science, observation, mystery; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, cluttered foreground suggesting scientific activity

A man in a suit stands near a cluttered table in a room with a large window; another person is visible in the background near the window. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 26:17 (passage 26:16–26:18); US record: No renewal found

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