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Africa Screams · Beat 3 · permalink

Jungle

1:11:28–1:18:55 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:11:421:11:42Frame at 1:12:561:12:56Frame at 1:14:401:14:40Frame at 1:18:381:18:38

Play from 1:11:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 1 · shots 42–77. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jungle (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, fighting in jungle visible
  • man in dark shirt, fighting in jungle visible
  • Stanley Livingston (named at t:77:43): man in dark suit, speaking in office visible, audible
  • Buzz Johnson (named at t:76:14): man in light shirt, speaking in office audible
  • Harry (named at t:77:21): man in dark suit, speaking in office audible
  • Marshall (named at t:75:51): man in light shirt, speaking in office audible
  • Mr. Myleson (named at t:77:43): man in dark suit, speaking in office audible
  • Kaluma (named at t:77:21): man in light shirt, speaking in office audible
Seen happening
  • Two men are fighting in a jungle path. [frame:1]
  • One man is grabbing another from behind. [frame:2]
  • A man is running away down a jungle path. [frame:3]
  • A cast list is displayed on screen. [frame:4]
Also said
“Morning, sir. Good morning, Mr. Leningen.” 77:15 · “Morning, Mr. Livingston. Morning, Mr. Myleson.” 77:43
Seen
cast list, jungle path, tropical plants, man's shirt, man's pants, man's suit, office desk, office chair
On screen
CAST OF CHARACTERS Buzz Johnson BUD ABBOTT Stanley Livington... LOU COSTELLO CLYDE BEATTY FRANK BUCK Grappler MAX BAER Boots Wilson BUDDY BAER Diana Emerson HILLARY BROOKE Gunner SHEMP HOWARD Harry JOE BESSER Bobo WENLAND
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and frustrated; themes: conflict, loss, office routine, identity; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast jungle lighting, medium shots for dialogue, wide shots for action

The beat shows a jungle fight scene followed by a character lamenting lost wealth and a final office scene with dialogue about raises and morning greetings. The cast list is shown on screen, naming actors like Bud Abbott and Shemp Howard.

“Why don't you watch where you're going, you clumsy ox?” 71:44 · “I had an empire in the palm of my hand...” 73:36 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 Africa Screams (1949) at 1:11:42 (passage 1:11:28–1:18:55); US record: No renewal found

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