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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 121 · permalink

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35:22–35:41 Registered 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:2235:22Frame at 35:3235:32

Play from 35:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 223–224. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing dark robe with light trim, medium build visible, audible
  • group of robed figures, indistinct features, seated visible
  • man in orange tunic, standing, holding helmet visible
Seen happening
  • A man in dark robes speaks solemnly. [frame:1]
  • A group of robed figures and a statue are visible behind the speaker. [frame:2]
Also said
“My men will fight for Athens up to the end.” 35:38
Seen
statue of a figure, classical columns, helmet held by man, robes worn by figures
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and resolute; themes: duty, war, leadership; style notes: dramatic lighting, night scene, classical architecture, medium close-up and wide shot

A man in dark robes speaks at night, stating his men will fight for Athens. Behind him, a group of robed figures and a statue stand under columns.

“I do not possess the divine power to transform a disaster into a triumph.” 35:23 · “Theocritus asks me for a miracle, but he knows full well.” 35:31 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 35:22 (passage 35:22–35:41); US record: No renewal found

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