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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 212 · permalink

Field

51:02–51:14 Registered 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 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 51:0451:04Frame at 51:0651:06Frame at 51:1051:10

Play from 51:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 137 · shots 394–396. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man on horseback, wearing dark cloak, seen from behind visible
  • Telepites (named at t:51:05): man in bronze helmet with yellow plume, red cloak, armored chest visible, audible
  • man in dark helmet with black plume, side profile, among crowd of soldiers visible
  • crowd of soldiers in helmets and armor visible
Seen happening
  • A lone rider on horseback appears atop a grassy hill. [frame:1]
  • A man in armor shouts with mouth open. [frame:2]
  • A soldier turns to address a crowd of armored men. [frame:3]
Seen
horse [frame:1], helmet with yellow plume [frame:2], red cloak [frame:2], armor [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and rallying; themes: military rallying, alliance, leadership; style notes: wide shot establishing scale, followed by tight close-ups to emphasize emotion and command; bright outdoor lighting

A soldier on horseback appears on a hilltop, followed by close-ups of armored men shouting to rallied troops. The transcript indicates a call to arms with references to Athenians, Spartans, and a returning Philippites.

“Athenians! Telepites! Athenians, hold out! Sparta is with us! Philippites is back! Sparta is with us!” 51:05 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 51:04 (passage 51:02–51:14); US record: No renewal found

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