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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 29 · permalink

Sea

7:10–7:28 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 7:127:12Frame at 7:177:17Frame at 7:247:24

Play from 7:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 42–44. 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
  • swimming, partially submerged, dark clothing visible
  • in a small boat, reaching out, light-colored shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A person is swimming in turbulent water near floating debris. [frame:1]
  • A wide shot shows a dark, stormy sea with distant smoke or fire. [frame:2]
  • A person in a boat reaches toward another person in the water. [frame:3]
Also said
“Nobody left but us, too. And that fellow.” 7:23
Seen
floating debris, small boat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and desperate; themes: survival, isolation, danger at sea; style notes: high-contrast black and white, wide shots for scale, close-ups for action

A person struggles in dark water near floating debris while another person reaches out to them from a small boat. The dialogue suggests they are the last survivors and are searching for others.

“Try to drown me!” 7:11 · “Where are the others? See anybody?” 7:15 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 7:12 (passage 7:10–7:28); US record: No renewal found

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