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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 79 · permalink

Private office

21:37–22:56 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:4321:43Frame at 22:2122:21Frame at 22:5522:55

Play from 21:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 150–152. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in tuxedo, seated on couch, gesturing with right hand visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing, holding glass visible, audible
  • woman with short hair, wearing light dress, seated in armchair visible
Seen happening
  • Man in tuxedo gestures while seated on couch. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand near a piano with bottles on a table. [frame:2]
  • Woman sits in armchair in dim room. [frame:3]
Also said
“We'll have a big party to get cock-eyed and go hunting.” 22:21 · “Oh, I know. Play the piano, huh?” 22:44
Seen
couch [frame:1], piano [frame:2], bottles [frame:2], armchair [frame:3], candlestick [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and theatrical; themes: hospitality as performance, hidden danger, social ritual; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, staged composition

A man in a tuxedo sits on a couch and gestures while speaking; another man stands nearby holding a glass. A woman sits in an armchair in a dimly lit room with a piano and bottles visible. Dialogue references a hunt, a trophy room, and playing the piano.

“It's no use, Frenchman.” 21:37 · “He won't even let you see his trophy room.” 21:41 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 21:43 (passage 21:37–22:56); US record: No renewal found

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