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gov.dod.dimoc.30120 · Beat 90 · permalink

Sea

19:35–19:51 Released 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:3719:37Frame at 19:4119:41Frame at 19:4719:47

Play from 19:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 238–240. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sea (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
Period
1951 evidence: t:19:38
Seen happening
  • A naval gun fires a shell. [frame:2]
  • An explosion occurs at sea. [frame:3]
Seen
naval gun, explosion at sea, ship superstructure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military conflict, diplomatic negotiation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots of naval action, no close-ups, high contrast lighting on smoke and explosions

The beat shows a naval gun firing and an explosion at sea, with a transcript mentioning truce talks at Panmunjom in October 1951. No people are visible or named; the setting is maritime and the time period is established by the transcript.

“Near the end of October 1951, truce talks were resumed at the tiny farming village of Panmunjom.” 19:38 · “The UN delegates offered a compromise. They would accept the communists proposed cease fire along the present battle lines if all other problems could be ironed out within 30 days.” 19:38 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 19:37 (passage 19:35–19:51); US record: US Government work

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