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39:50–40:02 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:5139:51Frame at 39:5739:57

Play from 39:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 166–167. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man with mustache, dark coat, formal attire visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a patterned dress and large white headpiece visible, audible
  • man in profile, dark hair, wearing a jacket visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand side by side in a dim interior. [frame:1]
  • The woman turns to face a man in profile and speaks. [frame:2]
Also said
“You butcher!” 40:00
Seen
woman's white headpiece [frame:1], woman's patterned dress [frame:1], man's dark coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, defending family honor; style notes: black-and-white, close framing, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expressions

A man and a woman stand close together in a dimly lit interior; the woman then faces a man in profile as she speaks. The dialogue includes an insult directed at the woman's father and a retort calling someone a butcher.

“I'm not.” 39:53 · “anyone who dares to insult my father.” 39:57 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 39:51 (passage 39:50–40:02); US record: No renewal found

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