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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 213 · permalink

Field

51:14–52:22 Registered 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:3151:31Frame at 51:5651:56Frame at 52:0952:09Frame at 52:1852:18

Play from 51:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 137 · shots 397–403. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • soldier in helmet and armor, visible from back visible
  • soldier in helmet and armor, holding spear visible
  • soldier in helmet and armor, visible from front visible
  • unarmored figure, possibly shouting visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A soldier raises a weapon in combat [frame:1]
  • Soldiers are engaged in close combat on rocky ground [frame:2]
  • A rocky hillside is shown under a clear sky [frame:3]
  • A group of armored soldiers advances with spears and shields [frame:4]
Seen
helmet, spear, shield, armor
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: battle, command, ancient warfare; style notes: wide shots of terrain, medium shots of combat, bright outdoor lighting

A battle scene unfolds on a rocky hillside under a clear sky. Soldiers in helmets and armor are shown fighting, with one figure shouting commands.

“Follow me! Attack!” 51:15 · “Come on!” 51:45 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 51:31 (passage 51:14–52:22); US record: No renewal found

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