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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 4 · permalink

Ship

2:47–3:26 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 3:073:07

Play from 2:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 4–4. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(ship, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform, standing, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man in white uniform, standing, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man seated in chair, wearing light suit, mid-adult visible
  • man seated, wearing light suit, mid-adult visible
  • Bob (named at t:3:12): man called Bob, not visible in frame mentioned, audible
Also said
“Well, perhaps if I could talk with Mr. Rainsford, he... But Bob's not a sailor. He's a hunter. He's made many of these trips. He's young, but he has judgment.” 3:12 · “Come up here, will you?” 3:24
Seen
bottles on table, mounted fish on wall, wooden table, chairs, uniforms
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: navigation, authority, expertise, off-screen presence; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal composition with characters arranged around a table

In a ship's interior, a man in uniform speaks with others about navigation near Brank Island; another man is called up from below. The setting includes a table with bottles and a mounted fish on the wall.

“We're heading straight for the channel between Brank Island and the mainland.” 2:55 · “But the lights are just a bit off, according to the chart. But charts are never up to date in this far of the Pacific. You know that.” 2:59 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 3:07 (passage 2:47–3:26); US record: No renewal found

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