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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 183 · permalink

Forest

54:37–54:54 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:4054:40Frame at 54:4454:44Frame at 54:4854:48Frame at 54:5254:52

Play from 54:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 376–379. 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, frame:2, frame:4
People
  • silhouetted figure, dark clothing, standing near waterfall visible
  • silhouetted figure, lighter clothing, standing on cliff edge visible
Seen happening
  • Two figures stand near a waterfall in a rocky area. [frame:1]
  • One figure is seen near rapids with trees overhead. [frame:2]
  • A large splash occurs in the water, suggesting someone entered it. [frame:3]
  • One figure stands on a cliff edge looking down, while others are visible below. [frame:4]
Seen
waterfall [frame:1], rapids [frame:2], splash [frame:3], cliff [frame:4], trees [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: survival, nature as peril, isolation; style notes: high-contrast black and white cinematography, silhouetted figures, dynamic framing emphasizing scale and danger

Two figures are seen near a waterfall and rapids in a rocky, forested area; one figure falls or jumps into the water, creating a large splash, while another stands on a cliff edge. The scene is shot in black and white with high contrast lighting and dramatic framing.

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 54:40 (passage 54:37–54:54); US record: No renewal found

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