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British Intelligence · Beat 183 · permalink

Sidewalk

57:25–57:58 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 57:4157:41

Play from 57:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 109 · shots 389–389. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark clothing, running, seen from behind visible
  • unseen, speaking audible
Seen happening
  • A man runs along a path beside a wall and trees. [frame:1]
Also said
“Quickly, men. We'll stretch the ground.” 57:31 · “Get on the trail. Come on, you men.” 57:47
Seen
wall [frame:1], trees [frame:1], path [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent, tense; themes: pursuit, escape, command; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static medium shot, black-and-white film stock

A man in dark clothing runs along a path beside a wall and trees while off-screen voices shout commands to pursue him. The scene is outdoors at night or in low light, with no visible time-of-day indicators beyond the darkness.

“Dr. Colby.” 57:27 · “still here in the goblin.” 57:30 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 57:41 (passage 57:25–57:58); US record: No renewal found

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