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The Torch · Beat 154 · permalink

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1:01:12–1:03:45 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:291:02:29

Play from 1:01:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 107 · shots 250–250. 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
  • Jose Juan (named at t:63:23): wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark clothing, seated, appears ill visible, audible
  • not visible audible
  • Maria Dolores (named at t:63:23): not visible audible
Seen happening
  • A person in a hat speaks in Spanish about being very sick and expecting to die. [frame:1]
Also said
“I want my daddy.” 62:59 · “Jose Juan. Maria Dolores.” 63:23
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], dark clothing [frame:1], dark interior background [frame:1]
On screen
{'text': '...estoy muy enfermo. Creo que voy a morir.', 'evidence': 'frame:1'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: illness, urgency, reconciliation, mortality; style notes: black-and-white, low-key lighting, tight framing on a seated figure, high contrast

A person in a hat and dark clothing is shown in a dimly lit interior, speaking in Spanish about being very sick and expecting to die. Others are heard calling for a doctor and urging Jose Juan to come, with one person saying they want their daddy.

“I am very sick.” 62:25 · “I think I'm going to die.” 62:27 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 1:02:29 (passage 1:01:12–1:03:45); US record: No renewal found

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