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Superman · Beat 38 · permalink

Building exterior

7:20–7:25 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 7:237:23

Play from 7:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 45–45. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
building exterior (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Superman in blue suit, red cape, red boots, and red trunks visible
Seen happening
  • Superman climbs the side of a building [frame:1]
Seen
building facade [frame:1], Superman costume [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: action-oriented; themes: heroic action, urban environment; style notes: low-angle shot, stylized animation, flat color fields

Superman is shown climbing a building exterior. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 7:23 (passage 7:20–7:25); US record: No renewal found

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