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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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 40:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 246–247. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- young man, dark hair, wearing dark swimwear, lean build visible, audible
- multiple people in water, partially visible, wearing swimwear visible
- Seen happening
- A young man stands on a wooden structure above water, looking down. [frame:1]
- The young man enters the water and stands among others. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “- What are you scared of? - I ain't scared. Hey, he's from right there, none of them kids know how to swim. Who doesn't know how to swim? I'll show you.” 40:16
- Seen
- wooden structure [frame:1], swimwear [frame:1, frame:2], water [frame:2], trees [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and defiant; themes: youth defiance, peer pressure, outdoor recreation; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, black-and-white film, static framing
A young man in swimwear stands on a wooden structure above water, then enters the water among others. He speaks defiantly about swimming ability while others are in the water.
“Oh!” 40:11 · “Come on in!” 40:14 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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