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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 104 · permalink

Private office

28:04–28:38 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:0528:05Frame at 28:1728:17Frame at 28:3228:32

Play from 28:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 67 · shots 193–195. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with dark curly hair, wearing a toga, muscular build visible, audible
  • man with dark hair, seen from behind, wearing a toga visible
  • Andromeda (named at t:28:07): woman with blonde hair, wearing a light-colored toga visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a toga speaks to another man indoors. [frame:1]
  • A man in a toga stands near a doorway, holding something. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a toga stands outdoors near columns and foliage. [frame:3]
Also said
“I want to tell you how I really feel.” 28:32 · “I love you.” 28:37
Seen
{'item': 'toga', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'columns', 'frame': 3}, {'item': 'foliage', 'frame': 3}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and intimate; themes: duty, romance, personal sacrifice; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, classical costume design

A man in a toga speaks to another man indoors, then a woman in a toga appears outdoors near columns. The transcript includes dialogue about Andromeda agreeing to something for her father and a character named Filippity declaring love.

“Does Andromeda agree to this?” 28:07 · “Why, of course she does. Otherwise, we would hardly have asked you here. She would do it for her father. She would do anything for him. And if necessary, she would do anything for our cause.” 28:08 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 28:05 (passage 28:04–28:38); US record: No renewal found

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