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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 10 · permalink

Town square

2:50–3:29 Registered 1959

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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:552:55Frame at 3:003:00Frame at 3:123:12Frame at 3:233:23

Play from 2:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 16–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • Philippides (named at t:3:14): man, mid-adult, wearing yellow robe, holding laurels, bearded visible, audible
  • man, older, bearded, wearing dark robe, standing among others visible
  • man, older, bearded, wearing helmet and armor, red cape visible
  • group of men in robes and armor, some with helmets visible
Seen happening
  • Philippides holds laurels and speaks to Athena. [frame:1]
  • Men in robes stand together, listening. [frame:2]
  • Philippides walks among soldiers in armor. [frame:3]
  • A man in armor and helmet stands with others. [frame:4]
Also said
“Philippides has brought Athens the laurels of the Olympic Games.” 3:14 · “the people of Athens decreed only a short year ago, the exile of the tyrant Hippias.” 3:24
Seen
laurels [frame:1], armor [frame:3], helmets [frame:3], shields [frame:3], robes [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and ceremonial; themes: victory, religious devotion, civic pride, political exile; style notes: medium shots, static framing, bright outdoor lighting, classical costumes

A man in a yellow robe holds laurels while speaking to Athena; soldiers and officials stand nearby. The transcript mentions Philippides returning to Athens' ranks after winning Olympic laurels and the exile of Hippias.

“To thee, divine Athena.” 2:54 · “Protect Athens, which bears thy name.” 3:02 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 The Giant of Marathon (1959) at 2:55 (passage 2:50–3:29); US record: No renewal found

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