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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 64 · permalink

Private office

15:37–16:17 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 15:4515:45Frame at 16:0116:01Frame at 16:1316:13Frame at 16:1616:16

Play from 15:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 40 · shots 99–103. 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
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress, seated visible, audible
  • man, light shirt and tie, seated, facing p1 visible, audible
  • man, dark suit, standing near a table with drinks visible
  • man, dark uniform or livery, standing near stairs visible
  • Count (named at t:15:52): man, mentioned as 'Count' and 'Mr. Rainsford' mentioned, audible
Mentioned
  • Mr. Rainsford is mentioned as also being a victim of circumstance. [t:15:46]
Also said
“Isn't that so, Count? Of course, yes. You were in the shipwreck, too, I understand. Yes. Our lifeboat was the only one saved.” 15:52 · “We will report him. Just as soon as we get back to the mainland. You see...” 16:07
Seen
candlestick, small table with drinks, armchairs, staircase, statue or bust, dark uniform
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: survival, social class, isolation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, ornate set design, formal attire

A group of people are gathered in a dimly lit, ornate room, discussing their shipwreck and current predicament. One woman speaks about circumstances and liquor while seated with a man, and another man stands nearby; a servant is also present.

“Now, Martin, you don't have to drink at all tonight, do you? Don't be ridiculous, sis.” 15:40 · “We are victims of circumstances.” 15:44 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 15:45 (passage 15:37–16:17); US record: No renewal found

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