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37:06–37:12 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; 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 37:0837:08Frame at 37:1137:11

Play from 37:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 73 · shots 149–150. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • General (named at t:37:09): man wearing large sombrero, military-style vest with bandolier, holding rifle visible, audible
  • man wearing sombrero, standing behind p1, wearing dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a sombrero holds a rifle and looks upward. [frame:1]
  • The same man stands with hands on hips, looking forward. [frame:2]
Seen
rifle, bandolier, sombrero, mural
On screen
tengo que
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: duty, conflict, military command; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, dramatic framing

A man in a sombrero and military-style vest speaks emphatically while holding a rifle, with Spanish subtitles visible. Another man in a sombrero stands behind him, and a mural is visible in the background.

“I tell you, I got to do it.” 37:06 · “The general told me not to shoot the old man.” 37:09 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 37:08 (passage 37:06–37:12); US record: No renewal found

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