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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 5 · permalink

Stadium

1:18–1:33 Registered 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:231:23Frame at 1:311:31

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 5 · shots 9–10. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stadium (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
title card text, title card text, statues
On screen
[{'text': 'Music by ROBERTO NIGOLSI', 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'Produced by FERRUCCIO DE MARTINO', 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'Conducted by PIERALDO URBINI', 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'In EASTMAN COLOR', 'frame': 2}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal; themes: film production credits, historical setting; style notes: static title cards with yellow text overlaid on wide shots of a classical setting; bright, even lighting typical of studio backdrops

The beat shows two title cards from the film's opening credits, one listing production staff and the other advertising the film's color process, both set against a backdrop of an ancient stadium scene. No characters or actions are depicted in the frames.

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 (passage 1:18–1:33); US record: No renewal found

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