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The Torch · Beat 89 · permalink

Private office

30:02–31:00 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 30:3130:31

Play from 30:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 140–140. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Faustina (named at t:30:31): woman with dark hair, wearing a dark dress, visible in frame 1 visible, audible
  • Robert (named at t:30:44): man in light-colored suit, visible in frame 1 visible, audible
  • Marie Delores (named at t:30:44): woman entering, audible but not visible in frame 1 audible
  • Dr. Stanley (named at t:30:29): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Faustina and Robert stand facing each other in a room. [frame:1]
Also said
“- Marie Delores! - Yes, Robert. I'm coming!” 30:44 · “If they ever dare to do anything to my father, believe me, I'm going to shoot them all. Oh, Robert Jenkins! Oh, Robert! It went off!” 30:57
Seen
gun [frame:1], wooden door frame [frame:1], dark curtains or drapes [frame:1]
On screen
ar Faustina. Ca
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anxious; themes: domestic tension, threat of violence, family loyalty; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high contrast lighting, static framing

A woman named Faustina speaks with a man in a dimly lit interior while another woman, Marie Delores, enters; a gunshot is heard and a character named Robert is present. The dialogue reveals concern for Don Carlos in jail and a threat of violence if harm comes to a father.

“Nothing, Faustina. We've just got to remain calm and everything will be all right.” 30:31 · “It sounds like a gunshot.” 30:37 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 30:31 (passage 30:02–31:00); US record: No renewal found

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