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gov.dod.dimoc.30120 · Beat 118 · permalink

Battlefield

21:55–21:57 Released 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 21:5621:56

Play from 21:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 280–280. 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
  • indistinct figure, possibly crouching or moving, partially obscured by smoke visible
Seen happening
  • Smoke rises from the ground in an open field, suggesting recent explosion or gunfire. [frame:1]
Seen
smoke [frame:1], indistinct figure [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: war, destruction, uncertainty; style notes: grainy black-and-white footage, wide shot, low visibility due to smoke, no clear focal point

A single frame shows a battlefield scene with smoke rising from the ground and a figure partially visible in the foreground. No people are named or audible, and no on-screen text or specific time of day is indicated.

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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Frame from gov.dod.dimoc.30120 (1959) at 21:56 (passage 21:55–21:57); US record: US Government work

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