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Battlefield

29:23–29:24 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:2429:24

Play from 29:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 237–237. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure in dark clothing, possibly military, standing on a platform visible
Seen happening
  • Explosions and smoke obscure the background while a figure stands on a platform. [frame:1]
Seen
platform or scaffolding [frame:1], smoke and debris [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and tense; themes: war, destruction, isolation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide shot capturing destruction and a lone figure, suggesting wartime action

A chaotic scene with smoke and debris fills the frame; a figure stands on a platform amid the destruction. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 British Intelligence (1940) at 29:24 (passage 29:23–29:24); US record: No renewal found

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