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39:45–39:50 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

39:47

Play from 39:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 76 · shots 165–165. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1

People

Mr. Peña Fiel (named at t:39:46): man wearing sombrero and traditional attire, mustache, mid-adult visible, audible

Seen

sombrero, traditional attire

On screen

Sr. Peña Fiel, permítame que lo visite esta noche.

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, polite; themes: courtesy, request, cultural attire; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting

A man in a sombrero speaks to someone off-screen, requesting to visit their house tonight. The Spanish subtitle confirms the request and includes the phrase 'que noche'.

“Mr. Peña Fiel.” 39:46 · “Please grant me the privilege of calling at your house tonight.” 39:47 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 Torch (1950) at 39:47 (passage 39:45–39:50); US record: No renewal found

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Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/TheTorch_627/b104"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/TheTorch_627/0165.webp" alt="Frame from The Torch (1950) at 39:47 (passage 39:45–39:50); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>The Torch (1950), 39:45–39:50. Internet Archive copy TheTorch_627; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "The Torch (1950), 39:45–39:50", https://publicreel.org/moment/TheTorch_627/b104, from Internet Archive item TheTorch_627, retrieved 6 September 2026.

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