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gov.archives.arc.37058 · Beat 47 · permalink

Power plant interior

17:06–17:37

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 17:1117:11Frame at 17:2117:21Frame at 17:3217:32

Play from 17:06 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 21 · shots 172–174. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
power plant interior (factory, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in work clothes, medium build, visible on scaffolding visible
  • man in work clothes, wearing white hard hat, standing near large valve visible
  • man in work clothes, standing near turbine base visible
Seen happening
  • Workers stand near a large turbine assembly in a factory hall. [frame:1]
  • Men on scaffolding inspect or work on the upper section of the turbine. [frame:2]
  • Workers gather around a massive butterfly valve being installed. [frame:3]
Also said
“16,500 volt generator driven by a 115,000 horsepower turbine.” 17:13 · “Weighing 2,000 tons, N8 parts were shipped to Hoover Dam” 17:33
Seen
turbine assembly, butterfly valve, scaffolding, hard hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: technical and documentary; themes: industrial engineering, hydroelectric power, construction; style notes: static wide shots, industrial lighting, emphasis on scale and machinery

The beat shows workers assembling a massive turbine and butterfly valve inside a power plant, with narration describing the generator's specifications and water control mechanism. No names are spoken, and the setting is industrial machinery within a large hall.

“It is a 95,000 kilowatt” 17:09 · “60 cycle” 17:12 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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