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gov.dod.dimoc.30120 · Beat 30 · permalink

Harbor

9:12–9:25 Released 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:149:14Frame at 9:179:17Frame at 9:209:20Frame at 9:249:24

Play from 9:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 53–56. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
harbor (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man in heavy coat and hat, holding a hose visible
  • man in heavy coat, seen from behind, walking up a slope visible
  • group of men in heavy coats on pier and slope visible
Seen happening
  • Men place explosives and hoses along a pier. [frame:1]
  • A man holds a hose near barrels on a pier. [frame:2]
  • Men work on a pier with a building and industrial structures in the background. [frame:3]
  • Men walk up a slope near a building; a truck is visible in the background. [frame:4]
Seen
TNT blocks [frame:1], hoses [frame:1, frame:2], barrels [frame:2], truck [frame:4], pier [frame:1, frame:3], building on pier [frame:1, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent, destructive; themes: destruction, military withdrawal, industrial waterfront; style notes: black-and-white, medium to wide shots, natural lighting, documentary-style framing

Men in heavy coats work along a waterfront pier, placing explosives and hoses; a transcript line states they are the last to leave and will destroy the harbor. The scene includes a building on the pier, barrels, and a truck on a slope.

“We were the last to leave. When we were gone, the harbor would be too. We set blocks of TNT and laced hoses filled with jellied explosive all along the waterfront.” 9:13 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 9:14 (passage 9:12–9:25); US record: US Government work

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