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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 109 · permalink

Private office

35:10–35:30 Registered 1932

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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:1235:12Frame at 35:2235:22

Play from 35:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 204–205. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man, light shirt, dark tie, short hair, medium build visible
  • man, dark uniform, holding weapon visible
  • man, light tunic, beard, medium build visible
  • man, dark coat, back to camera visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light shirt and dark tie is shown against a stone wall. [frame:1]
  • Three men are in a dim room with candles; one holds a weapon. [frame:2]
Also said
“Invariably, Mr. Rainsford...” 35:21 · “Invariably they choose to hunt.” 35:23
Seen
stone wall [frame:1], candles [frame:2], weapon [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: power, confinement, threat; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, period costume

A man in a light shirt and dark tie stands against a stone wall; another scene shows three men in a dim room with candles, one holding a weapon. The transcript mentions refusal to be hunted and Ivan's skill with weapons.

“Suppose he refuses to be hunted.” 35:11 · “Ivan is such an artist with these.” 35:17 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 The Most Dangerous Game (1932) at 35:12 (passage 35:10–35:30); US record: No renewal found

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