Field
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 11:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 177–183. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in light uniform shirt, dark tie, wide-brimmed hat, medium build visible, audible
- man in similar uniform, slightly heavier build, same hat visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Two men in uniform walk through a field with stacked corn. [frame:1]
- A dark animal-like shape moves under a corn stalk pile. [frame:2]
- Corn stalks in the field appear to shift or move. [frame:3]
- Two men stand close, one gesturing while speaking. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Oh, I just saw that corn shop move.” 11:37 · “I know the liquor up here is potent, but don't tell me that the corn itself is strong enough to walk.” 11:39
- Seen
- corn stalks [frame:1], wide-brimmed hats [frame:1], uniform shirts [frame:1], dark ties [frame:1], wooden cart wheel [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic suspense; themes: misdirection, absurdity, search and discovery; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, static camera
Two men in uniform search an outdoor area near stacked corn, reacting to a moving corn stalk. One man speaks about the corn appearing to walk, while another mentions a hole under the bed.
“Give me the slip!” 11:27 · “There's a hole under the bed.” 11:28 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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