Field
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 31:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 163–163. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in plaid shirt, standing, eyes closed visible
- man in button-up shirt, leaning back, head tilted up, eyes closed visible
- Seen
- tall reeds or grasses [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: still, tense; themes: confrontation, vulnerability; style notes: tight framing on two figures, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock
Two men are shown in a close shot; one stands behind the other who leans back with his head tilted up. The background consists of tall, dry reeds or grasses.
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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