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Beat 1

0:00–1:25 Registered 1950

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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:420:42

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Also said
“I'm not sure.” 1:23
Seen
credit title card
On screen
Productora Asociada PAULETTE GODDARD Musical de Produccion FELIPE SUBERVIELLE Director Artistico MANUEL FONTANALS Plan de Produccion A. GUERRERO TELLO Subtitulos JAIME CONTRERAS Escenografia MANUEL PARRA
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static title card, high contrast black-and-white, centered text, no camera movement

The beat shows a black-and-white credit title card listing production roles and names, with no visible characters or action. The transcript includes three short spoken lines that do not describe the visual content.

“Tadam!” 0:35 · “Amen.” 1:20 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 Torch (1950) at 0:42 (passage 0:00–1:25); US record: No renewal found

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