Public Reel

The Torch · Beat 48 · permalink

Other

17:51–18:21 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 18:0618:06

Play from 17:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 83–83. 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 military-style uniform with bandolier, dark hair, mustache, medium build visible
  • Robert Stanley (named at t:18:03): Man in suit, light hair, clean-shaven, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men face each other in a dim interior. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'd like to pass to Mexico City and back.” 18:11 · “I'd take care of that flesh wound.” 18:16
Seen
bandolier [frame:1], counter or table with objects [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, identity, travel under duress; style notes: black-and-white, medium two-shot, high contrast lighting, static framing

A man in military-style attire confronts a man in a suit who identifies himself as Robert Stanley, a doctor. The doctor requests passage to Mexico City and offers to treat a wound.

“Who are you?” 18:00 · “Well, I'm Robert Stanley, a doctor.” 18:03 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from The Torch (1950) at 18:06 (passage 17:51–18:21); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/TheTorch_627/b48.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite