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Attack of the Giant Leeches · Beat 1 · permalink

Bar

0:00–28:46 Registered 1959

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:230:23Frame at 2:552:55Frame at 4:114:11Frame at 22:4522:45

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Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–23. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man with dark hair and beard, wearing dark shirt and necklace visible, audible
  • man wearing hat and overalls, older, with mustache visible, audible
  • man wearing hat and dark shirt, standing behind counter visible, audible
  • Liz (named at t:2:43): woman with light hair, wearing patterned top visible, audible
  • Steve Benton (named at t:4:35): man with dark hair, wearing light shirt, lying down visible, audible
  • Lem (named at t:3:36): man wearing hat and dark shirt, seated visible, audible
  • Sheriff (named at t:10:01): man wearing hat and overalls, standing visible, audible
  • Doc Grayson (named at t:10:30): man wearing hat and dark shirt, seated visible, audible
Also said
“I've been poaching this country for 40 years, and I ain't never seen nothing like it.” 4:30 · “Something that had intelligence enough to seek him out and destroy him later.” 11:59
Seen
bar counter, shelves with bottles, bed, hat, overalls, necklace, patterned top
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: man vs nature, skepticism vs belief, marital conflict, local vs outsider; style notes: black-and-white, low-key lighting, medium shots in interiors, close-ups for emotional moments

A group of men in a rustic interior discuss a mysterious creature killed in a swamp, while a woman leaves her husband after an argument. Later, a game warden and sheriff debate the cause of death, with a doctor suggesting an octopus-like creature, and a man claims the creature had intelligence.

“Come on now, Lamb, and tell us about that thing you killed out there at the swamp, will you? Yeah, Liv, let's hear the rest of that. Like I was singing, I put five slugs into that critter before it went under.” 3:36 · “But that thing weren't nothing nature put out there.” 4:22 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 Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) at 0:23 (passage 0:00–28:46); US record: No renewal found

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