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British Intelligence · Beat 178 · permalink

River

55:52–56:14 Registered 1940

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; 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 56:0356:03

Play from 55:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 104 · shots 382–382. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
river (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Franz Strindler (named at t:55:52): unseen, voice only audible
Seen happening
  • An aerial view of a river and bridges at night is shown. [frame:1]
Seen
river, bridges, searchlights
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: surveillance, identification, military operation; style notes: high-angle aerial shot, night scene, stark lighting from searchlights

A nighttime aerial view of a river and bridges is shown. A voice identifies someone as Franz Strindler and mentions a saplon being sighted.

“You are Franz Strindler. Exactly.” 55:52 · “They have sighted our saplon.” 55:56 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 British Intelligence (1940) at 56:03 (passage 55:52–56:14); US record: No renewal found

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