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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 122 · permalink

Forest

38:58–39:28 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 39:0139:01Frame at 39:1639:16

Play from 38:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 231–232. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, medium build, wearing light-colored shirt and trousers visible
  • woman, wearing light-colored dress, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand together in a dark forest, the man holding the woman's arm or shoulder. [frame:1]
  • The screen cuts to black. [frame:2]
Seen
trees and ferns [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, urgent; themes: escape, danger, nighttime pursuit; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shot framing, abrupt cut to black

A man and a woman stand close together in a dark, leafy outdoor setting; the man appears to be guiding or holding the woman. The scene cuts to black after a brief moment.

“Come on, let's get going.” 38:59 · “*whistling*” 39:22 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 39:01 (passage 38:58–39:28); US record: No renewal found

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