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Battlefield

7:06–7:16 Released 1959

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Frame at 7:117:11

Play from 7:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 17–17. 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
  • covered body lying in snow, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A covered body lies in snow near wreckage. [frame:1]
Seen
covered body, wreckage, snow
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: war, loss, survival; style notes: static wide shot, high contrast black and white, stark lighting emphasizing snow and wreckage

A snowy battlefield scene shows a covered body and wreckage. The voiceover describes daytime sleeping due to cold nights and losses from freezing and enemy action.

“We took turns sleeping in the daytime. It was too cold at night. I heard later we lost more people from freezing and from enemy action.” 7:07 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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Frame from gov.dod.dimoc.30120 (1959) at 7:11 (passage 7:06–7:16); US record: US Government work

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