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The Giant of Marathon · Beat 63 · permalink

Garden or courtyard at night

16:27–17:08 Registered 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:4716:47

Play from 16:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 116–116. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden or courtyard at night (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure, indistinct clothing or features due to darkness visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A person stands silhouetted against a dark blue night sky with trees and a structure behind them. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm not used to being rejected the awkwardness.” 17:04 · “I don't like it. Hmm? And I don't want anyone to know it. Carus, I don't give up so easily. I can't help.” 17:07
Seen
silhouetted trees and structure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and frustrated; themes: rejection, determination, secrecy; style notes: low-key lighting, silhouette framing, night exterior shot

A person speaks in a dark outdoor setting at night, expressing frustration over rejection and insisting they won't give up. No names are spoken, and no other people are visible or audible in the frames or transcript.

“Do you expect me to believe that fantastic story?” 16:52 · “I doubt if I ever will...” 16:57 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 16:47 (passage 16:27–17:08); US record: No renewal found

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