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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 120 · permalink

Town square

34:52–35:22 Registered 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:5834:58Frame at 35:0735:07Frame at 35:1635:16

Play from 34:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 220–222. 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:2
People
  • man with white hair, wearing dark robe, visible in crowd visible
  • Miltiades (named at t:34:52): man standing on platform, dark clothing, facing crowd visible
  • group of men seated behind p2, wearing tunics, some with head coverings visible
  • crowd of people, mostly silhouetted, some holding banners visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on a platform addressing the crowd, with others seated behind him. [frame:3]
Also said
“All of Athens waits to hear from you.” 35:14 · “I am sure you have an ingenious plan to lead us to victory.” 35:16
Seen
temple [frame:2], columns [frame:3], statue [frame:3], crowd banners [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and reverent; themes: leadership under pressure, civic duty, historical epic; style notes: wide shots of crowd and temple at night, low-key lighting, silhouetted figures, classical architecture

A crowd addresses Miltiades at night before a large temple, urging him to defend Athens from the Persians. A man stands on a platform, addressing the crowd, while others sit behind him under columns.

“Miltiades! Hail, Miltiades! Defend us from the Persians! Save us, Miltiades! Throw the Persians back into the sea! The gods be with you, Miltiades!” 34:52 · “Come, we are waiting, Miltiades.” 35:12 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 34:58 (passage 34:52–35:22); US record: No renewal found

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