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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 185 · permalink

Cliffside

55:14–55:31 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:1555:15Frame at 55:2155:21Frame at 55:2555:25Frame at 55:2955:29

Play from 55:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 386–391. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cliffside (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in light shirt, dark trousers, seen from back and side visible
  • woman with light-colored dress or top, visible face, dark hair visible
  • multiple figures in dark clothing, indistinct, standing on rocky ground visible
Seen
waterfall or mist [frame:2], rocky cliff face [frame:2], rocky ground [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: survival, isolation, nature as threat; style notes: high-contrast black and white, dramatic lighting, wide shots emphasizing scale of environment

A man and a woman are shown in close proximity in a dark, rocky environment. Other figures are visible in the background near a large waterfall or misty cliff face.

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 55:15 (passage 55:14–55:31); US record: No renewal found

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