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Queen of the Amazons · Beat 15 · permalink

Hotel lobby

7:30–8:19 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:557:55

Play from 7:30 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 14 · shots 20–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hotel_lobby (hotel lobby, interior) evidence: t:7:42 (mention of police investigation and natives rising implies a public lodging; t:8:13 'meet you down in the lobby' confirms hotel_lobby)
People
  • unspecified, likely adult, speaking in dialogue audible
  • unspecified, likely adult, speaking in dialogue audible
  • unspecified, likely adult, speaking in dialogue audible
  • unspecified, likely adult, speaking in dialogue audible
Seen happening
  • A chaotic crowd scene is visible, possibly natives rising. [frame:1]
Also said
“Now, Redford, come on, let's get out of here. That's just what I was thinking. There's a clipper lying in the bay. If we hurry, we can make it.” 7:58 · “Are you packed? Oh, yes, yes. Well, then hurry. We'll meet you down in the lobby. Yes, hurry. Let's go.” 8:13
Seen
crowd, weapons
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: escape, colonial tension, adventure; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, chaotic framing in frame 1 suggests action and disorder; dialogue-driven pacing

A group discusses escaping after a shot was fired, fearing native unrest and police involvement; they decide to flee to a clipper in the bay to continue their search for Greg in Africa. A frame at 475s shows a chaotic crowd scene, possibly natives rising, consistent with the dialogue.

“- Is Preston in her room? - Yes, I...” 7:33 · “What happened here? I don't know. But with all this native unrest, if the police ever get wind of this, there's going to be trouble. Their investigation may detain us here for a month.” 7:42 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 Queen of the Amazons (1946) at 7:55 (passage 7:30–8:19); US record: No renewal found

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