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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 129 · permalink

Shore

40:46–41:13 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:5940:59

Play from 40:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 240–240. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shore (beach, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing light shirt and trousers, standing upright visible, audible
  • woman, wearing light dress, standing beside p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two people stand on a rocky shore near water, looking at something off-camera. [frame:1]
Also said
“If that supporting branch were cut away,” 41:09 · “This fallen tree would make a perfect melee deadfall. A melee deadfall? What's that? A man-killing contraption that natives use.” 41:11
Seen
rocky shore [frame:1], water [frame:1], foliage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conspiratorial; themes: survival, ingenuity, danger in nature; style notes: medium shot, natural lighting, static framing, black-and-white film texture

Two people stand on a rocky shore discussing a trap involving a leaning tree. One explains how cutting a branch would turn it into a deadfall, while the other questions the term 'melee deadfall'.

“Now, we've got to think of something to worry him.” 40:48 · “Weapons aren't everything in the jungle.” 40:54 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 40:59 (passage 40:46–41:13); US record: No renewal found

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