Pool
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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 41:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 259–267. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- pool (other, exterior) evidence: frame:4
- People
- person in water, reaching forward, dark hair, wearing light-colored top visible
- person in water, head above surface, dark hair, appears to be struggling visible
- person in water, wearing dark swimsuit, assisting another visible
- child or small person, mentioned in dialogue mentioned
- adult male, mentioned as 'Dad', assisting mentioned
- Jack (named at t:42:08): person named Jack, mentioned in dialogue mentioned
- Seen happening
- Person p1 is seen reaching forward in water. [frame:1]
- Person p2 is seen struggling in water. [frame:2]
- Person p3 is seen helping another person in water. [frame:3]
- Person p3 is seen holding another person near a depth marker. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Hey Jack, the water's running out. Right out here. Hold on, will you?” 42:08
- Seen
- depth marker [frame:4], water [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: struggle, rescue, urgency; style notes: black-and-white, medium to close shots, high contrast lighting, water reflections
A person struggles in water while another is helped up; dialogue indicates concern about swimming ability and water levels. The scene includes multiple individuals in a pool or body of water with visible depth markers.
“- Dad, you better help him 'cause he can't swim very good. - Okay, kid, up you go to.” 41:49 · “I want to get up. Get me up. Shut up. What's the matter with you? I want to get up. Hey.” 41:59 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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