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The Torch · Beat 163 · permalink

Private office

1:11:52–1:13:06 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 1:12:291:12:29

Play from 1:11:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 260–260. 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
  • partially visible, wearing a hat or headgear, dark clothing, indistinct features due to low light visible
  • General Jose Juan Reyes (named at t:71:55): not visible audible, mentioned
Mentioned
  • A general is mentioned as having decided to retreat. [t:71:57]
Also said
“has decided to retreat.” 71:57 · “You order, General. When the troops get to the outside of the Pueblo, have them start spreading the wreck.” 72:34
Seen
hat or headgear [frame:1], dark clothing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, tense; themes: military command, retreat, destruction; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, single figure in shadow, static framing

A general is addressed and given an order to have troops spread destruction upon leaving a Pueblo. The scene is dimly lit and appears to be indoors, with only one figure partially visible.

“There would be no more battles here.” 71:52 · “General Jose Juan Reyes, my friend.” 71:55 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 1:12:29 (passage 1:11:52–1:13:06); US record: No renewal found

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