Beat 1
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–2. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Also said
- “A planet that burned like a green star in the distant heavens.” 1:03 · “There came a day when giant quakes threatened to destroy Krypton forever. One of the planet's leading scientists, sensing the approach of doom, placed his infant son in a small rocket ship and sent it hurtling in the direction of the Earth just as Krypton exploded.” 1:15
- Seen
- Paramount Pictures title card, Director credit card for Dave Fleischer
- On screen
- [{'text': 'a Paramount Picture', 'frame': 2}, {'text': 'Directed BY DAVE FLEISCHER', 'frame': 3}]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: epic and expository; themes: origin myth, cosmic scale, doom and salvation; style notes: opening title sequence with static cards and voiceover; classic studio presentation
The beat opens with a black screen, followed by a Paramount Pictures title card and a director credit for Dave Fleischer. The voiceover begins describing Krypton and its destruction, mentioning a scientist who sends his infant son to Earth.
“Up in the sky! Look! It's a man! It's a plane! It's Superman!” 0:09 · “There once existed a planet known as Krypton,” 1:00 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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