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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 216 · permalink

Water

1:01:27–1:01:29 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:281:01:28

Play from 1:01:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 464–464. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
water (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure in the stern of a boat, possibly wearing a hat or cap visible
  • silhouetted figure seated next to p1 in the stern, indistinct features visible
Seen happening
  • A motorboat moves across water with two figures visible in the stern. [frame:1]
Seen
motorboat [frame:1], chain [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or suspenseful; themes: escape, pursuit, isolation; style notes: high-contrast black and white, rear-view framing, low-angle shot emphasizing the boat against water

A motorboat is shown on water, viewed from behind, with two figures visible in the stern. The scene is in black and white and appears to be shot at night or under low light.

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 1:01:28 (passage 1:01:27–1:01:29); US record: No renewal found

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