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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 87 · permalink

Private office

26:28–27:00 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:3826:38Frame at 26:5526:55

Play from 26:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 167–168. 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
  • Mr. Rainsford (named at t:26:37): man in dark tuxedo, medium build, short hair visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and trousers, medium build, short hair visible, audible
  • sis (named at t:26:28): woman in light dress, medium build, styled hair visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, medium build, short hair visible
Seen happening
  • Four people stand in a room; one woman speaks to another man. [frame:1]
  • Three men converse; one in a tuxedo gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“Good night. Good night. Good night, sis. We won't be seeing each other at breakfast.” 26:41 · “Oh, my dear Rainsford, I have been most inconsiderate. You must be feeling the need of sleep, too. Yes, I am just about all in. Then Ivan will show you to your room.” 26:47
Seen
piano, stone walls, candelabra, tuxedo, light dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: social etiquette, impending separation, unspoken threat; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume, stone interior suggests wealth or old estate

In a stone-walled room with a piano, four people exchange goodbyes; one man is told he will be shown to his room by Ivan. The scene ends with a man in a tuxedo speaking to another man in a shirt and trousers.

“There. You hear that, sis? Now try along upstairs and don't bother us grown-ups anymore.” 26:28 · “Good night, Mr. Rainsford. Good night. We'll be seeing each other at breakfast.” 26:37 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 26:38 (passage 26:28–27:00); US record: No renewal found

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