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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 75 · permalink

Private office

20:18–20:38 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:1920:19Frame at 20:2420:24Frame at 20:3320:33Frame at 20:3720:37

Play from 20:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 136–140. 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 dark tuxedo with bow tie, standing, medium build visible, audible
  • man reclining on couch, wearing dark jacket and light trousers, holding bottle, mustache visible
Seen happening
  • A man reclines on a couch holding a bottle. [frame:1]
  • A man in a tuxedo stands and speaks. [frame:2]
  • The man in the tuxedo continues speaking. [frame:3]
  • A bow is mounted on a stone wall. [frame:4]
Also said
“Tucker, what's...” 20:29 · “That one up there.” 20:34
Seen
bottle, couch, tuxedo, bow, stone wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and theatrical; themes: power dynamics, hunting, civilization vs savagery; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, formal attire, stone architecture

A man in a tuxedo speaks while another man reclines on a couch holding a bottle; a bow is mounted on a stone wall. The dialogue references a 'tartar wobble' and a person named Tucker.

“Well, you seem to have stood it pretty well. I even tried to sink myself to the level of the savage.” 20:18 · “I made myself perfect in the use of the tartar wobble.” 20:24 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 20:19 (passage 20:18–20:38); US record: No renewal found

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