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36:37–37:06 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; 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 36:5236:52

Play from 36:37 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 72 · shots 148–148. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, visible in profile, wearing a light-colored dress or robe, gesturing with her right arm raised visible
  • Bocadagra (named at t:37:02): man, standing in shadow, wearing dark clothing, face partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A woman gestures toward a man while speaking. [frame:1]
  • The man remains still, facing the woman. [frame:1]
Also said
“Hey, Bocadagra!” 37:02 · “I want to do it!” 37:04
Seen
doorway or archway [frame:1], furniture or structure in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent; themes: confrontation, personal agency; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, deep shadows, medium shot framing

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit interior space; the woman gestures while speaking, and the man stands still. The transcript includes a shouted name and a declaration of intent.

“What's that one?” 36:40 · “Come on.” 36:43 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 36:52 (passage 36:37–37:06); US record: No renewal found

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