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The Torch · Beat 69 · permalink

Arched stone structure

26:34–26:52 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:3626:36Frame at 26:4526:45

Play from 26:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 113–114. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
arched stone structure (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with mustache, wearing dark hat and scarf visible, audible
  • rider on horse, wearing dark clothing visible
  • person standing near arch, wearing dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • Man with mustache speaks while touching his face. [frame:1]
  • Horse and rider pass under stone archway. [frame:2]
Seen
stone archway, horse, rider, man's hand touching face
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic; themes: romantic declaration, journey, architectural setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up on speaker, wide shot of archway, high contrast lighting

A man with a mustache speaks while a horse and rider pass under an arched stone structure. The transcript includes a declaration about marrying a girl.

“That's the girl I'm gonna marry.” 26:36 · “I.” 26:39 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 26:36 (passage 26:34–26:52); US record: No renewal found

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