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gov.dod.dimoc.30120 · Beat 76 · permalink

Battlefield

16:07–16:28 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:1116:11Frame at 16:1716:17Frame at 16:2116:21Frame at 16:2716:27

Play from 16:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 182–188. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
Seen happening
  • Explosions and smoke are visible across a field with hills. [frame:1]
  • Military vehicles and figures are seen in a smoky field. [frame:2]
  • Tanks and smoke rise in a battlefield with hills in the background. [frame:3]
  • Smoke and fire are visible in a valley with mountains behind. [frame:4]
Seen
explosions [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], military vehicles [frame:2, frame:3], smoke [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], hills [frame:1, frame:3, frame:4], mountains [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and destructive; themes: warfare, military strategy, destruction; style notes: wide shots, black-and-white, high contrast between smoke and terrain, static framing

The beat shows a battlefield with explosions and military vehicles under smoke, as a voice describes enemy forces losing men while breaking through fire. No named individuals appear; the setting is an open field with hills, and no time of day or period is established.

“Every road, every valley approach had been zeroed in beforehand. The enemy lost thousands of men, breaking through the curtain of fire, then faltered and lost his advantage.” 16:08 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 16:11 (passage 16:07–16:28); US record: US Government work

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