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gov.archives.arc.37058 · Beat 1 · permalink

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0:00–0:12

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:060:06

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Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
Seen
U.S. Department of the Interior seal [frame:1]
On screen
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR • MARCH 3, 1849
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and documentary; themes: government authority, engineering achievement; style notes: static shot of an official seal with blue-tinted color grading; no camera movement or dramatic lighting.

The beat opens with a seal of the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the voiceover introduces Hoover Dam as one of America's seven modern civil engineering wonders. No people are visible or named, and the setting is not established beyond the seal.

“This is the story of Hoover Dam.” 0:08 · “one of America's seven modern civil engineering wonders.” 0:11 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

US Government work The record names a federal body as the creating agency. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act). This says nothing about copyright outside the United States, or about music, stock footage or other material the film may incorporate. 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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