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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 355 · permalink

Ship

1:18:44–1:18:54 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:18:471:18:47Frame at 1:18:501:18:50Frame at 1:18:521:18:52

Play from 1:18:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 245 · shots 616–618. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • muscular, shirtless, wearing white loincloth, standing on deck visible
  • shirtless, wearing white loincloth, handling grappling iron visible
  • group of shirtless men in white loincloths, holding grappling irons visible
Seen happening
  • A muscular man stands on a ship's deck. [frame:1]
  • Men handle grappling irons on the deck. [frame:2]
  • A group of men holds grappling irons on the deck. [frame:3]
Seen
grappling irons [frame:2], ship deck [frame:1], loincloths [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: preparation for battle, naval conflict; style notes: wide shots, bright daylight, static framing, historical costume

A muscular man stands on a ship's deck as other men prepare grappling irons. The scene is set outdoors under a clear sky, with multiple men visible on the deck.

“Grappling irons!” 78:45 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 1:18:47 (passage 1:18:44–1:18:54); US record: No renewal found

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