Public Reel

The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 77 · permalink

Private office

20:59–21:25 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 21:0421:04Frame at 21:1221:12Frame at 21:1821:18Frame at 21:2321:23

Play from 20:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 144–147. 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 black tuxedo, white shirt, bow tie, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, dark tie, dark hair, seated, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man in tuxedo speaks while holding a small object. [frame:1]
  • Man in shirt and tie reacts with a slight frown. [frame:2]
  • Man in tuxedo continues speaking, holding object. [frame:3]
  • Hand holds an animal skull. [frame:4]
Also said
“You mean tigers?” 21:14 · “The tiger has nothing but his claws and his fangs.” 21:19
Seen
animal skull, tuxedo, shirt and tie, candlestick
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: hunting, danger, power; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, close-up on skull for emphasis

A man in a tuxedo speaks about hunting the most dangerous game while holding a small object; another man in a shirt and tie reacts. A close-up shows a hand holding an animal skull.

“Yes.” 21:00 · “I hunt the most dangerous game.” 21:06 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from The Most Dangerous Game (1932) at 21:04 (passage 20:59–21:25); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/TheMostDangerousGame/b77.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite