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Superman · Beat 49 · permalink

Mountain

8:41–8:46 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 8:438:43

Play from 8:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 65–65. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountain (mountain, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figure in red and blue costume, cape visible, standing on rocks visible
Seen happening
  • A figure in a red and blue costume stands on a rocky outcrop with bright light behind them. [frame:1]
Seen
rocky outcrop [frame:1], bright light source [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic; themes: heroism, isolation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, silhouette framing, heroic scale

A figure in a red and blue costume stands on a rocky outcrop against a blue sky, with bright light emanating from behind. 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 8:43 (passage 8:41–8:46); US record: No renewal found

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