Bridge

5:51–5:58 Registered 1941

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

5:55

Play from 5:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 31–31. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

bridge (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1

Seen happening

A vehicle crashes into a bridge structure, causing a bright explosion with sparks. [frame:1]

Seen

bridge [frame:1], vehicle [frame:1], explosion [frame:1], city skyline [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: action-packed; themes: destruction, urban setting, collision; style notes: dynamic framing with emphasis on impact and scale; bright lighting highlights the explosion against the sky

A vehicle collides with a bridge structure, producing a bright explosion with sparks. The scene is set against a city skyline under a clear sky.

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 5:55 (passage 5:51–5:58); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/superman_1941/b24.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/superman_1941/b24"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/superman_1941/0031.webp" alt="Frame from Superman (1941) at 5:55 (passage 5:51–5:58); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Superman (1941), 5:51–5:58. Internet Archive copy superman_1941; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Superman (1941), 5:51–5:58", https://publicreel.org/moment/superman_1941/b24, from Internet Archive item superman_1941, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Bridge

Evidence and details

The record

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