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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 28 · permalink

Sea

7:01–7:10 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:027:02Frame at 7:067:06

Play from 7:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 40–41. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sea (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • two figures in dark water, one appearing to hold or restrain the other visible
Seen happening
  • Two people are in the water near floating debris. [frame:1]
  • A ship is visible in the distance under a dark, cloudy sky. [frame:2]
Seen
floating debris, ship
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: survival, pursuit; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide shots emphasizing isolation and scale

Two people are in the water near floating debris; a distant ship is visible under a dark sky. A voice commands 'Take him!' during this interval.

“Take him!” 7:02 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 7:02 (passage 7:01–7:10); US record: No renewal found

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