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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 395 · permalink

Battlefield

1:23:09–1:24:08 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:131:23:13Frame at 1:23:191:23:19Frame at 1:23:281:23:28Frame at 1:23:531:23:53

Play from 1:23:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 270 · shots 672–679. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
battlefield (battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • armored warriors on horseback, silhouetted against bright light visible
  • a figure in armor falling through the air visible
Seen happening
  • Warriors on horseback clash in a chaotic battle near water. [frame:2]
  • A figure in armor is seen falling through the air. [frame:3]
  • The water is shown churning violently. [frame:4]
Seen
horses [frame:1], swords [frame:1], armor [frame:1], water [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and violent; themes: battle, fall, chaos; style notes: dynamic framing with low-angle shots and silhouettes against bright backlighting, emphasizing motion and turmoil

A chaotic battle scene unfolds on horseback near water, followed by a shot of a falling figure and churning water. A shouted command is heard during the action.

“Come on!” 83:14 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 1:23:13 (passage 1:23:09–1:24:08); US record: No renewal found

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