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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 47 · permalink

Private office

11:36–11:56 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; 2 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 11:4611:46

Play from 11:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 29 · shots 72–72. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Count Zaroff (named at t:11:49): man in formal black tuxedo with bow tie, holding a cigarette, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Robert Rainsford (named at t:11:52): man in light-colored short-sleeved shirt and dark trousers, medium build, light hair visible, audible
Also said
“I am Count Zaroff.” 11:49 · “My name's Robert Rainsford.” 11:52
Seen
cigarette [frame:1], stone walls [frame:1], stairs [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly ominous; themes: introduction of characters, setting establishment, power dynamics; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, stone architecture suggests grandeur and isolation

Two men meet in a stone-walled interior; one identifies himself as Count Zaroff and mentions restoring a Portuguese fortress, while the other introduces himself as Robert Rainsford. The setting appears to be a large, dimly lit room with stone architecture and stairs.

“Welcome to my poor fortress.” 11:37 · “It once was, built by the Portuguese centuries ago.” 11:41 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 11:46 (passage 11:36–11:56); US record: No renewal found

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