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The Torch · Beat 152 · permalink

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1:00:15–1:00:57 Registered 1950

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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:221:00:22Frame at 1:00:431:00:43

Play from 1:00:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 105 · shots 247–248. 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
  • man in dark suit and patterned tie, clean-shaven, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • Maria Dolores (named at t:60:48): woman wearing dark headscarf, visible from shoulders up, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man wearing wide-brimmed sombrero, holding a document, partially obscured by shadow visible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind p3, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a sombrero holds a document; Spanish text on screen mentions a wedding dress and a fusil. [frame:1]
  • A man and a woman are shown in close-up; Spanish text on screen says 'Lo importante es aminorar la fiebre con quinina.' [frame:2]
Also said
“Now the important thing is to keep the fever down, quinine and compresses.” 60:39 · “Then you better come with me, Maria Dolores. I'm gonna need your help.” 60:48
Seen
{'item': 'document held by man in sombrero', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'sombrero', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'dark suit and patterned tie', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'headscarf', 'frame': 2}
On screen
[{'text': 'un traje fu / Lo importante es aminorar la fiebre nina.', 'frame': 1}, {'text': '—...trajo un traje de bodas! ¡Fíjese! ¿Lo fusilo?', 'frame': 1}, {'text': '—Lo importante es aminorar la fiebre con quinina.', 'frame': 2}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: public health crisis, leadership under pressure, collaboration in emergency; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white cinematography, tight close-ups on faces, dramatic lighting emphasizing shadows and expressions

A man in a suit and a woman in a headscarf are shown in a dimly lit interior; dialogue references an influenza epidemic and the need to reduce fever with quinine. A separate frame shows a man in a sombrero holding a document, with Spanish text on screen mentioning a wedding dress and a fusil.

“All he brought is a sinking wedding dress for the woman you love!” 60:17 · “General, this is an influenza epidemic. Not a town or a city has escaped it.” 60:30 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 1:00:22 (passage 1:00:15–1:00:57); US record: No renewal found

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