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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 231 · permalink

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54:35–55:30 Registered 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 55:0255:02

Play from 54:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 152 · shots 425–425. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: t:55:04
Period
ancient Greece evidence: t:55:05
People
  • muscular man wearing brown armor with shoulder straps, short dark hair visible
  • man wearing long brown robe, dark hair, gesturing with right hand visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a dimly lit interior, one in armor and one in a robe. [frame:1]
Also said
“But tomorrow, without Sparta...” 55:24 · “we have no chance at all look over there” 55:28
Seen
armor, robe, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and foreboding; themes: impending doom, military alliance, historical drama; style notes: static medium shot, low-key lighting with strong contrast, theatrical staging with heavy drapery

Two men stand in a dimly lit interior, one in armor and the other in a robe, discussing the absence of the Spartans and the impending threat from Darius. One man gestures toward something off-screen while speaking about their lack of chance without Spartan aid.

“It will soon be midnight.” 55:04 · “The Spartans should have been here by sunset. Eurus told me they would.” 55:05 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 55:02 (passage 54:35–55:30); US record: No renewal found

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