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The Torch · Beat 70 · permalink

Town square

26:52–26:58 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:5526:55

Play from 26:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 115–115. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a light-colored, full-length dress, dark hair visible
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, riding a horse visible
Seen happening
  • A woman walks past stone columns. [frame:1]
  • A man on horseback moves behind the woman. [frame:1]
Seen
stone columns [frame:1], horse [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: public space, movement, period costume; style notes: wide shot, high contrast black-and-white, classical architecture framing the subjects

A woman in a light dress walks past stone columns while a man on horseback passes behind her. The setting appears to be an open plaza with classical architecture under daylight.

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 26:55 (passage 26:52–26:58); US record: No renewal found

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