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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 48 · permalink

Private office

11:56–12:11 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; 3 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 11:5711:57Frame at 12:0212:02Frame at 12:0812:08Frame at 12:1012:10

Play from 11:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 73–76. 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
  • Ivan (named at t:11:59): bearded man in loose white shirt, arms crossed, standing visible
  • man in black tuxedo with bow tie, holding a cigarette visible, audible
  • man in white shirt with loosened tie, standing visible
Also said
“Smile, Ivan.” 12:05 · “Who lit nice?” 12:10
Seen
cigarette [frame:2], stone walls [frame:1], stairs [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: power dynamics, cultural stereotyping; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire against rustic stone

Two men converse in a stone-walled room while a third man, identified as Ivan, stands with arms crossed. The dialogue references Ivan's Cossack background and perceived savagery.

“Ivan is a Cossack.” 11:59 · “I am afraid, like all my fellow countrymen, he is a bit of a savage.” 12:01 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 11:57 (passage 11:56–12:11); US record: No renewal found

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