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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 241 · permalink

Water

58:43–58:57 Registered 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:4458:44Frame at 58:5158:51

Play from 58:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 156 · shots 443–444. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
water (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • swimmer, dark silhouette, partially submerged visible
  • horse, dark silhouette, head above water visible
Seen happening
  • A swimmer and a horse are visible in dark water. [frame:1]
  • The swimmer and horse continue moving through the water. [frame:2]
Seen
water [frame:1], swimmer [frame:2], horse [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or somber; themes: survival, journey, man and animal; style notes: low-light, wide shot, naturalistic water texture

Two figures are seen swimming in dark water, with one appearing to be a horse. The scene is set at night or in low light, with no visible structures or landmarks.

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 58:44 (passage 58:43–58:57); US record: No renewal found

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