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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 70 · permalink

Private office

18:19–19:00 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:2018:20Frame at 18:4618:46Frame at 18:5518:55Frame at 19:0019:00

Play from 18:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 40 · shots 121–126. 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:2
People
  • man, mid-30s, wearing a light shirt and dark tie, seated in a large chair visible
  • man, wearing a tuxedo, standing behind a globe visible
  • woman, wearing a light dress, seated at a table with drinks visible
  • man, bearded, wearing dark robes and a cap, standing in a stone room visible
  • Mr. Rainsford (named at t:18:21): unseen speaker, male voice audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a shirt and tie sits in a chair. [frame:1]
  • A man in a tuxedo stands behind a globe while a woman and another man sit at a table. [frame:2]
  • A hand reaches for a glass on a table with a cigarette holder and ashtray. [frame:3]
  • A bearded man in dark robes and a cap stands in a stone room. [frame:4]
Also said
“My hand was made for the trigger my father told me.” 18:32 · “VITRISTO!” 18:58
Seen
globe [frame:2], candlestick [frame:2], cigarette holder [frame:3], ashtray [frame:3], tea cup and saucer [frame:3], stone wall [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and reflective; themes: identity, legacy, power, hunting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition

A man in a shirt and tie sits in a chair while another man in a tuxedo stands nearby; a woman sits at a table with drinks. A hand reaches for a glass on a table with a cigarette holder and ashtray. A bearded man in dark robes and a cap stands in a stone room. A voice speaks about being made a hunter and owning land in the Crimea.

“Mr. Rainsford.” 18:21 · “Me he made a hunter.” 18:28 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 18:20 (passage 18:19–19:00); US record: No renewal found

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