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7:56–7:57 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 7:577:57

Play from 7:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 38 · shots 53–53. 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
  • Hand with white sleeve, turning a lever; no other features visible visible
Seen happening
  • A hand turns a lever on a machine [frame:1]
Seen
lever [frame:1], belt [frame:1], metal housing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mechanical, functional; themes: machinery, manual operation; style notes: close-up, static framing, flat animation lighting

A hand turns a lever on a machine with visible belts and metal parts. No people are named, no dialogue is present, and the setting is not identifiable beyond being an industrial or mechanical interior.

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 7:57 (passage 7:56–7:57); US record: No renewal found

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