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gov.dod.dimoc.30120 · Beat 52 · permalink

Military map

13:29–13:47 Released 1959

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 13:3313:33Frame at 13:3713:37Frame at 13:4313:43Frame at 13:4513:45

Play from 13:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 123–127. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
military map (other) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
Seen
military map, military map
On screen
[{'text': 'SOUL (SEOUL)', 'frame': 4}, {'text': 'KUMPO', 'frame': 2}, {'text': 'CHONJU', 'frame': 1}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: strategic and documentary; themes: military strategy, territorial control, wartime narration; style notes: static map overlays with superimposed movement lines; high-contrast black-and-white; no camera movement; informational framing

The beat shows a sequence of military maps overlaid with troop movements, accompanied by narration describing the 8th Army's advance and the destruction of an enemy stronghold east of Seoul. No people are visible; the focus is on cartographic visuals and strategic narration.

“For six weeks, the seasoned fighters of 8th Army scoured the countryside, inflicting fantastic losses on the retreating Reds.” 13:30 · “the enemy's main stronghold east of Seoul was smashed. The next step would be Seoul itself.” 13:39 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 13:33 (passage 13:29–13:47); US record: US Government work

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