Orphanage
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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 3–3. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- orphanage (other, exterior) evidence: t:1:41
- Seen happening
- A large institutional building is shown in a sketch. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound” 1:51 · “The infant of Sripton is now the man of steel! Superman!” 1:58
- Seen
- institutional building sketch [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: expository and mythic; themes: origin story, adoption and transformation, superhuman potential; style notes: static illustration with voiceover; sepia-toned sketch suggests flashback or archival record; no camera movement
A drawing of a large institutional building is shown while the narrator describes Superman's origin: his arrival on Earth, adoption by an orphanage, and development of superpowers. The beat ends with the reveal of his identity as Superman.
“The rocket ship sped through star-studded space, landing safely on Earth with its precious burden, Krypton's sole survivor.” 1:33 · “A passing motorist found the uninjured child and took it to an orphanage.” 1:41 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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