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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 171 · permalink

Desert

46:57–47:05 Registered 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:0147:01

Play from 46:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 109 · shots 343–343. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in ancient armor with plumed helmet, holding a weapon, standing among others visible
  • man in helmet with plume, partially visible on left visible
  • man in helmet with plume, visible on right visible
Seen
ancient armor [frame:1], plumed helmets [frame:1], weapon [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: war, fear, military leadership; style notes: wide shot, bright daylight, costume-heavy, historical epic framing

A man in ancient armor speaks to others in a desert-like setting. The transcript mentions Darius and Miltiades, indicating a military context.

“Darius wants to strike fear in the hearts of the men. With a skull. Our men don't frighten easily, Miltiades.” 46:58 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 47:01 (passage 46:57–47:05); US record: No renewal found

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