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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 69 · permalink

Private office

18:02–18:19 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 18:0318:03Frame at 18:1118:11Frame at 18:1818:18

Play from 18:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 118–120. 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
  • man in light shirt and dark tie, seated in armchair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, seated, holding glass, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit, seated on sofa, holding glass and cigar, mustache, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light shirt and tie sits in an armchair and speaks. [frame:1]
  • A man in a tuxedo sits and listens, holding a glass. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit sits on a sofa holding a glass and a cigar. [frame:3]
Also said
“I have invented a new sensation.” 18:14 · “Yeah, and is he stingy with it?” 18:17
Seen
armchair [frame:1], tuxedo [frame:2], glass [frame:2], sofa [frame:3], cigar [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: conversation, invention, social status; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, studio set

A man in a suit sits in a chair and speaks about inventing a new sensation; another man in a tuxedo listens; a third man in a suit holds a glass and a cigar. No names are spoken in the transcript.

“But what are you on here?” 18:04 · “You will be amused, I know.” 18:09 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 18:03 (passage 18:02–18:19); US record: No renewal found

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