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Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:02:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 95 · shots 493–494. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other) evidence: frame:1
- Seen happening
- A newspaper ad announces an immediate sacrifice of assets for Major I. I. Burdle's Bitters. [frame:1]
- The ad specifies the sale includes patents, labels, and a formula for inebriates. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “of the assets, chattels, livestock, etc., of Major I. I. Burdle's bidders for inebriates.” 62:23
- Seen
- newspaper ad, newspaper ad
- On screen
- Immediate Sacrifice DUE to unforeseen circumstances I am forced to make a painful sacrifice of the assets, chattels, live stock, etc., of Major I. I. Burdle's Bitters FOR INEBRIATES to wit: International Patent Rights, Copyright, Labels and wrappers. A Pure Arabian Station. A Wagon, pine beamed. A National Goodwill. A Formula Unknown to Science. PROPOSITION! A FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR Only $2,500.00
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and transactional; themes: commercial advertisement, financial distress, public notice; style notes: static close-up on printed text; high contrast black and white; no camera movement or staging
A newspaper advertisement for Major I. I. Burdle's Bitters is shown, announcing an immediate sacrifice of assets due to unforeseen circumstances. The ad lists items for sale including patents, labels, and a formula, priced at $2,500.00.
“Immediate sacrifice.” 62:16 · “Due to unforeseen circumstances, I am forced to make a painful sacrifice” 62:18 automatic transcript, may be wrong
The record
No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. 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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