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The Torch · Beat 5 · permalink

Field

2:23–3:04 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 2:312:31Frame at 2:512:51

Play from 2:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 4 · shots 6–7. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • a person in dark clothing, seen from behind, running uphill visible
  • Maria Dolores (named at t:2:23): unseen, voice only audible
Seen happening
  • A person is seen running up a grassy hill with smoke rising behind them. [frame:2]
Seen
smoke, hillside with vegetation
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: flight, danger, rebellion; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, wide shot emphasizing isolation and movement

A person is seen running up a hill as smoke billows behind them, while a voice urges Maria Dolores to flee from rebels. The scene is outdoors and appears urgent.

“The rebels, the rebels, they're coming! They must be in town! Run, Maria Dolores! Run! You must go, Maria Dolores! They're coming! Run, Maria Dolores! Run, you must go!” 2:23 · “Come on.” 2:56 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 2:31 (passage 2:23–3:04); US record: No renewal found

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