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The Torch · Beat 6 · permalink

Field

3:04–4:27 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:053:05Frame at 3:333:33Frame at 3:563:56Frame at 4:244:24

Play from 3:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 4 · shots 8–19. 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, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • group of riders on horseback, indistinct due to distance and film quality visible
Seen happening
  • A group of riders on horseback is visible moving across a field. [frame:1]
  • The riders continue moving across the field under a bright sky. [frame:2]
  • A wide shot shows a landscape with a mountain and a settlement in the distance. [frame:3]
  • A building on a hill is visible, partially obscured by foreground foliage. [frame:4]
Seen
horses [frame:2], building with domes [frame:4], mountain [frame:3], agave plant [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent or催促 (urging) due to the repeated command, set against a vast, open landscape; themes: movement across landscape, urgency, open space; style notes: wide shots, high-contrast black-and-white, natural lighting, static camera

A group of riders on horseback moves across an open landscape under a bright sky, with a distant mountain and a building on a hill visible in later shots. The transcript contains only the repeated phrase 'Come on.'

“Come on.” 3:26 · “Come on.” 3:56 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 3:05 (passage 3:04–4:27); US record: No renewal found

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