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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 269 · permalink

Beach

1:06:19–1:06:46 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:06:261:06:26Frame at 1:06:391:06:39

Play from 1:06:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 174 · shots 487–488. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
beach (beach, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
dusk or dawn evidence: frame:1
Period
ancient Greece evidence: t:66:25
People
  • Philippides (named at t:66:33): shirtless, muscular, dark hair, standing in front of others visible, audible
  • shirtless, standing in group, partially visible visible
  • shirtless, standing in group, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A leader addresses a group of men on a beach. [frame:1]
  • The group of men listens intently to the leader. [frame:2]
Also said
“We have no fear of them, Philippides. We will hold them back as ordered. We have a chance if we surprise them. First, we'll set the stakes in the water.” 66:33 · “We fight only if I give the signal.” 66:42
Seen
men (shirtless) [frame:1], beach [frame:1], ocean [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: military strategy, leadership under pressure, ancient warfare; style notes: low-angle framing, high contrast lighting, silhouetted figures against sky

A group of shirtless men are gathered on a beach at dusk or dawn, receiving orders from a leader who speaks of holding back Persians. The leader, identified by name in the transcript, gives instructions to set stakes in the water and fight only on his signal.

“Listen carefully Our orders” 66:21 · “How to hold back the Persians?” 66:25 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 1:06:26 (passage 1:06:19–1:06:46); US record: No renewal found

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