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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 238 · permalink

Field

57:52–58:07 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:5957:59Frame at 58:0658:06

Play from 57:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 155 · shots 437–438. 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, frame:2
People
  • robed figure, standing, dark hair visible
  • body lying on ground, wrapped in light cloth visible
  • dark figure moving in background visible
Seen happening
  • A robed person stands near a body on the ground. [frame:1]
  • A dark figure moves across a dim outdoor area. [frame:2]
Seen
robes, body wrapped in cloth, dark outdoor terrain
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: death, honor, battlefield; style notes: low-key lighting, static framing, outdoor night or twilight setting

A person in a robe stands near a body lying on the ground; another figure moves in a dark outdoor setting. A voice orders a funeral pyre and burial on the field of battle.

“Prepare a funeral pyre for this woman and bury her ashes on the field of battle. She fought and died as one of us.” 57:56 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 57:59 (passage 57:52–58:07); US record: No renewal found

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