SCION058 / LAUGHS — AUDIBLE CONTAGION

STATUS: SOURCE VERIFICATION; NO FINISHED FILM OR PASS.

The next operator depends on actual vocal laughter and audible onset, breath, pulse, recovery and rest. Current input interface explicitly reports audio content unsupported; no connected audio-analysis tools or local audio-understanding models were found. A Descript media-import/editing/transcription integration was located, but most recent confirmed state was not installed. Its ability to supply the missing analysis has not been verified. A connection could be checked if available; it is not claimed to guarantee the required listening review.

Progress: ten archive candidates were retrieved and sampled at five temporal positions. Four cached excerpts were retained intact in a51-second source-context reel, with silent identity separators. Their total unique original duration is about36.90seconds; the rest of the reel is cards and sub-frame tail padding. This reel is preparatory media, not a45-second laugh-chain substitute. Native source audio is retained with gain0.85 and15ms edge fades, with no pitch shift, fake laughter, continuous added score or cross-source overlaps. Every laugh onset/recovery field stays null. Waveform energy is not used to classify laughter.

An independent context critic inspected the four whole excerpts through ordered frames. It found403 a plausible visual laughter candidate,259 a smile,229 compatible with speech,39 ambiguous. No audible laugh or acoustic contagion has been established. The critic notes mockery risks if unrelated laughter is imposed on serious speech, a demonstration or object handling. No full acceptance is claimed.

NEXT REQUIRED EVIDENCE
Audition or audio-understanding analysis must identify actual laughs and their source situation, with onset/pulse/breath/recovery timestamps. Add suitable material if the current pool does not supply three distinct confirmed source situations. Only then assemble the45-second rhythmic proof, test overlaps without false responses, compare voices-only versus music, and obtain an actual auditory/contextual critic verdict.

REBUILD
Install Python3,numpy,scipy,Pillow,ffmpeg,ffprobe, then run:
 python3 film58/make_review.py
 python3 film58/check_review.py
All ten exact candidate files, metadata and sampled sheets are bundled. Rebuilding a context reel cannot create the missing auditory evidence.