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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 167 · permalink

Field

49:25–49:44 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:2949:29Frame at 49:3449:34Frame at 49:3849:38Frame at 49:4249:42

Play from 49:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 92 · shots 315–318. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored shirt and trousers, holding a rifle visible
  • woman in light dress, visible in profile visible
  • man in dark formal coat and trousers, holding a horn visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman walk through tall grass in fog. [frame:1]
  • A man with a rifle moves through fog. [frame:2]
  • The woman and the man with the rifle stand together in fog. [frame:3]
  • A man in dark clothing drinks from a horn. [frame:4]
Seen
rifle [frame:2], horn [frame:4], tall grass [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: pursuit, survival, isolation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, fog-diffused lighting, medium and long shots emphasizing isolation

Two people move through a foggy, overgrown outdoor area; a third person in dark clothing is seen drinking from a horn. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this segment.

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 49:29 (passage 49:25–49:44); US record: No renewal found

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