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Superman · Beat 21 · permalink

Vehicle interior

5:37–5:39 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:385:38

Play from 5:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 27–27. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • gloved hand, likely adult, wearing a white or light-colored glove visible
Seen happening
  • A gloved hand grips a metallic lever. [frame:1]
Seen
gloved hand, metallic lever or control, shadow of a figure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: control, mechanical interface; style notes: close-up framing, high contrast lighting with strong shadow, stylized animation

A close-up shows a gloved hand gripping a metallic lever or control in a dimly lit interior. The shadow of a figure is cast on a yellow wall behind the hand.

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 5:38 (passage 5:37–5:39); US record: No renewal found

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