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The Most Dangerous Game · Beat 88 · permalink

Private office

27:00–27:17 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; 6 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 27:0227:02Frame at 27:0627:06Frame at 27:1227:12Frame at 27:1627:16

Play from 27:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 169–172. 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:3
People
  • man with beard, wearing a robe, holding a candle visible
  • woman in a nightgown, standing near a doorway visible
  • man in servant attire, standing behind p2 visible
  • man in light-colored suit, standing with hands in pockets visible
  • man in dark suit, standing between p4 and p6 visible
  • Count (named at t:27:10): man in tuxedo, standing on right visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a robe holds a candle and speaks. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a nightgown stands near a doorway with a servant behind her. [frame:2]
  • Three men in formal wear stand together in a room with a piano. [frame:3]
  • The woman and servant remain in the doorway. [frame:4]
Also said
“The Count will take care of me, all right.” 27:10 · “Indeed I shall.” 27:14
Seen
candle, piano, doorway, servant's uniform, tuxedo
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: class hierarchy, duty and obligation, formal social interaction; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, staged composition

A man in a robe holds a candle while speaking; a woman in a nightgown stands near a doorway with a servant behind her; three men in formal wear stand together in a room with a piano. The dialogue indicates someone is being excused and another is told to turn in early, while a Count offers to take care of someone.

“Oh, excuse your comitre.” 27:01 · “Oh, Martin, turn in early, please. No way. Come on.” 27:05 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 27:02 (passage 27:00–27:17); US record: No renewal found

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