Public Reel

Superman · Beat 8 · permalink

Other

4:08–4:09 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:084:08

Play from 4:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 11–11. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
Seen
planet [frame:1], abstract light shape [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: cosmic and mysterious; themes: space, cosmic scale; style notes: stylized animation with high contrast between the dark background and bright, glowing elements; minimal detail suggests a symbolic or otherworldly scene.

A single frame shows a stylized planet and a bright, abstract shape against a dark background. No people, dialogue, or identifiable location are visible.

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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Superman (1941) at 4:08 (passage 4:08–4:09); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/superman_1941/b8.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite