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Queen of the Amazons · Beat 41 · permalink

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22:16–24:56 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 23:3623:36

Play from 22:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 57–57. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a cap and jacket, visible in low light visible
  • Gary (named at t:22:39): unseen, audible speaker audible
  • Miss Preston (named at t:22:51): unseen, audible speaker audible
  • Tonga (named at t:23:12): unseen, audible speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man is shown in a dark interior setting. [frame:1]
Mentioned
  • The natives danced the sacred fire dance that night. [t:22:29]
  • Despite warnings, the group started their trek. [t:24:21]
  • Obstacles and danger are described, including monkeys chattering as if to warn. [t:24:53]
Also said
“Tonga. I want you to tell us all you know about the white she-devils at the jungle. Bad to talk. They know everything. They voodoo.” 23:12 · “Despite the warnings of Tonga about the White Goddess, we started on our long trek, determined at all costs to bring our search to a successful conclusion.” 24:21
Seen
cap [frame:1], jacket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful and mysterious; themes: exploration, myth vs. reality, cultural encounter; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on a single figure, high contrast black-and-white

A man in a cap and jacket is shown in a dark setting while dialogue discusses white women in the jungle, a native named Tonga, and a trek despite warnings. The transcript mentions a sacred fire dance, Greek mythology, and obstacles during the journey.

“Shh.” 22:25 · “Well, Miss Preston. There's something I wanted to talk to you about. These white women, Amazon, whatever you call them.” 22:51 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 23:36 (passage 22:16–24:56); US record: No renewal found

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