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The Torch · Beat 88 · permalink

Street

29:37–30:02 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 29:4129:41Frame at 29:4629:46Frame at 29:5129:51Frame at 29:5929:59

Play from 29:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 136–139. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • young girl, dark dress with white trim, wide-brimmed hat, curly hair visible, audible
  • The General's daughter (named at t:29:42): woman, white ruffled dress, flowers in hair, earrings visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A girl in a dark dress stands in a doorway facing a woman in white. [frame:1]
  • The girl agrees and watches as the woman retreats through the arched doorway. [frame:4]
Also said
“You know, we women must stick together. Promise, promise, promise? Yes, yes, yes. Good.” 29:50
Seen
wide-brimmed hat, white ruffled dress, wooden arched doorway, flowers in hair
On screen
le nujeres tenemo
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and conspiratorial; themes: secrecy, female solidarity, class or status distinction; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black and white, static framing emphasizing dialogue

A young girl in a dark dress and hat confronts a woman in a white dress at a doorway; the woman identifies herself as the General's daughter and asks the girl to keep her hiding place secret. The girl agrees, and the woman retreats through the arched doorway.

“Do you know who I am? - No. Who are you? - The General's daughter.” 29:42 · “Don't you tell him where I hide.” 29:48 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 29:41 (passage 29:37–30:02); US record: No renewal found

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