Newsroom
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; 4 names 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.
Play from 1:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 3 · shots 4–4. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Clark Kent (named at t:2:09): unseen, but referred to as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter audible, mentioned
- Mr. White (named at t:2:27): unseen, referred to as Mr. White, Chief audible, mentioned
- Lois (named at t:2:29): unseen, referred to as Lois audible, mentioned
- unseen, referred to as mad scientist mentioned
- Seen happening
- A door labeled 'MANAGING EDITOR' is visible. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper.” 2:12 · “Lois, another note from the mad scientist. Coming in, Chief. Listen to this warning. He plans to strike tonight. Beware you fools. My electro-thanasia ray strikes tonight at twelve. Total destruction will come to those who laughed at me and failed to heed my warnings.” 2:29
- Seen
- door [frame:1]
- On screen
- MANAGING EDITOR
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and suspenseful; themes: duality of identity, threat of destruction, media as setting; style notes: static shot of a door with dramatic voiceover; high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s animation; text on door is clearly legible
A door labeled 'MANAGING EDITOR' is shown; dialogue reveals Clark Kent is Superman in disguise, working as a reporter, and a threatening note from a mad scientist has been received. The note warns of an attack at midnight.
“The infant of Sripton is now the man of steel! Superman!” 1:58 · “Superman has assumed the disguise of Clark Kent.” 2:09 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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