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5:22–5:37 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:255:25Frame at 5:335:33

Play from 5:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 25–26. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • white suit, helmet-like head covering, standing posture visible
  • dark costume with wing-like extensions, crouching visible
Seen happening
  • A figure in a white suit stands in a spotlight. [frame:1]
  • A dark-costumed figure crouches near the white-suited figure. [frame:2]
Seen
spotlight beam [frame:1], dark costume with wing-like extensions [frame:2], white suit with helmet-like head covering [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and ominous; themes: confrontation, threat, dramatic revelation; style notes: high-contrast lighting with spotlighting, stylized costumes, static framing emphasizing confrontation

A character in a white suit stands in a spotlight while another figure crouches nearby; a line about a story of destruction is spoken. The setting appears to be a dimly lit interior space with dramatic lighting.

“you want this story I'll give you the greatest story of destruction the world has ever known” 5:23 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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Frame from Superman (1941) at 5:25 (passage 5:22–5:37); US record: No renewal found

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