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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 24 · permalink

Field

7:38–8:08 Registered 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:397:39Frame at 7:497:49Frame at 8:038:03Frame at 8:078:07

Play from 7:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 47–51. 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
  • blonde woman, wearing a white tunic with dark trim and a belt, holding a ball visible
  • dark-haired man, muscular, wearing a red cape over a dark tunic visible, audible
  • multiple background figures, some in tunics or skirts, visible in frame 2 and 3 visible
Seen happening
  • The woman stands holding a ball, facing the camera. [frame:1]
  • The woman and man face each other on a grassy field, with other people in the background. [frame:2]
  • The woman kneels on the grass beside the man, who is also kneeling. [frame:3]
  • The man looks at the woman with a serious expression, while other figures stand behind them. [frame:4]
Also said
“You throw the ball as far as possible.” 7:50 · “You're as beautiful as a statue of a goddess.” 8:05
Seen
ball, white tunic, red cape, grass, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: play, compliment, classical antiquity; style notes: outdoor daylight, medium and close shots, classical costume, natural setting

A woman in a white tunic and a man in a red cape are outdoors on grass, interacting with a ball and other people in the background. The man speaks to the woman, complimenting her appearance after she throws the ball.

“That wasn't so hard.” 7:39 · “How do you play this game?” 7:45 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 7:39 (passage 7:38–8:08); US record: No renewal found

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