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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 116 · permalink

Castle courtyard

36:53–37:20 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:5736:57Frame at 37:0337:03Frame at 37:1237:12

Play from 36:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 217–219. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
castle courtyard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform, balding, stocky visible
  • man in dark tunic, bearded, large build visible
  • Raisman (named at t:37:00): man in light shirt and tie, wearing a wide belt, clean-shaven visible
  • man in dark uniform, hat, standing behind p1 visible
  • woman in light, flowing dress, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • Four men stand in a stone courtyard; one holds a book and speaks to another. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark uniform holds a book and speaks to a man in a light shirt. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a light dress runs up a stone staircase. [frame:3]
Also said
“Your fangs and claws, Mr. Raisman.” 37:00 · “No!” 37:07
Seen
stone archway, stone staircase, book, wide belt, dark uniform, light dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, escape; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, stone architecture dominates

Four men stand in a stone courtyard; one holds a book and speaks to another. A woman in a light dress runs up a stone staircase in the same location. The transcript includes shouted names and a command.

“Ivan!” 36:55 · “Giggis.” 36:58 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 36:57 (passage 36:53–37:20); US record: No renewal found

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