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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 29 · permalink

Town square

8:59–9:23 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 9:119:11

Play from 8:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 60–60. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figure in a purple robe, face obscured visible
  • man in short tunic, holding a weapon, bare-chested visible
  • crowd of indistinct figures visible
Seen happening
  • A figure in a purple robe stands facing a man in a tunic holding a weapon. [frame:1]
  • A crowd is visible behind the two figures. [frame:1]
Seen
purple robe [frame:1], short tunic [frame:1], weapon [frame:1], crowd [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, crowd; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, night scene

A figure in a purple robe faces a man in a short tunic holding a weapon, with a crowd behind them at night. The transcript contains the spoken word 'Come on.'

“Come on.” 9:04 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 9:11 (passage 8:59–9:23); US record: No renewal found

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