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Newsroom

10:02–10:20 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:0610:06Frame at 10:1610:16

Play from 10:02 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 52 · shots 85–86. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Clark Kent (named at frame:2): man in blue suit and red tie, wearing glasses, seated at a desk visible
  • man with dark hair and mustache, behind bars visible
Seen happening
  • A newspaper headline reads 'SUPERMAN CAPTURES MAD SCIENTIST'. [frame:1]
  • Clark Kent is seated at his desk in an office with a city view. [frame:2]
Seen
newspaper [frame:1], desk [frame:2], window [frame:2]
On screen
SUPERMAN CAPTURES MAD SCIENTIST
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: triumphant; themes: superhero victory, journalism, dual identity; style notes: animated, medium shot of Clark Kent, static newspaper close-up, bright interior lighting

A newspaper headline announces Superman capturing a mad scientist, and Clark Kent is shown at his desk. The newspaper photo shows the scientist behind bars, and Clark Kent is visible in an office with a city view.

“Congratulations, lords. That was a great scoop. Yes, Chief. Thanks to Superman.” 10:02 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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Frame from Superman (1941) at 10:06 (passage 10:02–10:20); US record: No renewal found

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