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The Torch · Beat 156 · permalink

Private office

1:04:49–1:05:30 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:101:05:10

Play from 1:04:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 109 · shots 252–252. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat, partially visible in shadow visible
  • Adelina (named at t:65:06): not visible audible, mentioned
Also said
“Maldita, if you don't want to go to school.” 65:16 · “Shoot my pistol.” 65:24
Seen
wide-brimmed hat, lamp, pistol
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: power dynamics, childhood agency, gifts as control; style notes: high-contrast lighting, shadowed figure, tight framing

A person speaks to Adelina, offering her a horse and permission to use a pistol, while a dimly lit interior scene shows a figure in shadow. No named characters are identified from dialogue or visuals.

“Oca Negra's gonna give him to you, Adelina.” 65:06 · “He's gonna be your own.” 65:08 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 1:05:10 (passage 1:04:49–1:05:30); US record: No renewal found

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