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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 163 · permalink

Forest

48:13–48:25 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; 3 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 48:1648:16Frame at 48:2148:21Frame at 48:2348:23

Play from 48:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 92 · shots 303–305. 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
  • Rainsford (named at t:48:15): man, dark turtleneck, holding pistol, visible in forest visible
  • man, light shirt, seated, visible in dim interior visible
  • woman, dark hair, seated next to p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands in a forest holding a pistol. [frame:1]
  • A man and a woman are seated in a dim interior space. [frame:2]
  • The man in the forest is shown again, holding a pistol. [frame:3]
Seen
pistol [frame:1], watch [t:48:22]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: pursuit, time pressure, confrontation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static framing, night exterior with deep shadows, interior scene obscured by haze or smoke

A man in dark clothing holds a pistol in a wooded area at night. Another person is briefly visible in a dim interior scene. A voice tells Rainsford he has not won yet and to look at his watch.

“Very good, Rainsford. Very good. You have not won yet.” 48:15 · “Look at your watch.” 48:22 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 48:16 (passage 48:13–48:25); US record: No renewal found

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