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The Torch · Beat 158 · permalink

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1:07:33–1:08:53 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; 2 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 1:08:131:08:13

Play from 1:07:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 111 · shots 254–254. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and hat, visible in profile visible, audible
  • General (named at t:67:45): man in wide-brimmed hat, visible in profile visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand near a gate at night, one speaking of homes, churches, and lives. [frame:1]
Also said
“What will we have in the end, Father? The destruction of everything.” 68:07 · “Goodbye, Sirita.” 68:23
Seen
wrought-iron gate, hats
On screen
{'frame': 1, 'value': '—Hogares, iglesias, tierras, vidas...'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, resigned; themes: surrender, loss, duty vs. consequence; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, silhouetted figures against night sky, tight framing on faces

Two men in dark clothing and hats stand near a wrought-iron gate at night; one gives an order to retreat as federal troops approach. One man says goodbye to Sirita and Jose Juan, mentioning homes, churches, and lives.

“The Federal troops are coming, Gerald.” 67:35 · “Sound retreat. Retreat. Without fighting.” 67:47 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 1:08:13 (passage 1:07:33–1:08:53); US record: No renewal found

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