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Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 3:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 29–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:4
- Time of day
- night evidence: frame:1, frame:4
- People
- man wearing a hat and dark coat, appears middle-aged, medium build visible
- man in light-colored shirt with ruffled collar, young, medium build visible
- woman with light-colored head covering, young, slender visible
- man in hat and dark coat, standing with hands clasped, appears middle-aged visible
- group of men in dark clothing, standing behind p4 visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a hat looks alarmed. [frame:1]
- A man and a woman appear tense, looking off-camera. [frame:2]
- A man in a hat stands with hands clasped, with other men behind him. [frame:3]
- A wagon with lanterns is shown at night. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “So” 3:56
- Seen
- hat [frame:1, frame:3], coat [frame:1, frame:3], ruffled collar shirt [frame:2], head covering [frame:2], wagon [frame:4], lanterns [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: fear, mystery, nighttime danger; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, dramatic close-ups and medium shots, static camera framing
A man in a hat reacts with alarm at night; a couple appears tense nearby; a group of men stand behind another man in a hat; a wagon with lanterns is shown at night. No names are spoken, and no specific events are described beyond the visual reactions and presence of people and a wagon.
“Zombie!” 3:29 · “All right.” 3:30 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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