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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 201 · permalink

Private office

59:11–59:31 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:1259:12Frame at 59:1659:16Frame at 59:2159:21Frame at 59:2759:27

Play from 59:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 102 · shots 432–435. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark coat, medium build visible
  • man in light shirt and trousers, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • Two men embrace in a struggle. [frame:1]
  • One man strikes the other with a weapon. [frame:3]
  • One man falls to the floor. [frame:4]
Seen
fireplace [frame:1], armchairs [frame:2], chandelier [frame:2], weapon [frame:3], globe [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, power struggle; style notes: static wide shots, high contrast lighting, dramatic shadows

Two men fight in a large stone room; one is thrown to the floor. The room contains furniture and a fireplace.

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 59:12 (passage 59:11–59:31); US record: No renewal found

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