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Attack of the Giant Leeches · Beat 3 · permalink

Swamp

29:45–37:00 Registered 1959

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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:4729:47Frame at 32:1032:10Frame at 35:0335:03Frame at 36:3436:34

Play from 29:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 1 · shots 30–67. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
swamp (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • older man, wearing a hat and dark shirt, seated in a boat visible
  • older man, wearing a hat and light shirt, standing in swamp visible
  • younger man, wearing a light collared shirt, indoors visible
  • unidentifiable figure lying among roots in a dark cave visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand in a swamp, one speaking with alarm. [frame:1]
  • A man in a shirt speaks indoors with a serious expression. [frame:2]
  • An older man sits in a boat in the swamp. [frame:3]
  • A body lies among roots in a dark cave. [frame:4]
Also said
“That man was in a state of shock.” 32:29 · “This pool should be crawling with him.” 35:13
Seen
boat, hat, hat, roots, body, clock
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: mystery of disappearances, conflict between authority and science, fear of the unknown in nature; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting in cave scene, naturalistic framing in swamp

Two men discuss a swamp-related death and a missing body while one sits in a boat; later, a dark cave scene shows a body lying among roots. A man in an office speaks with concern about the situation.

“Where'd they hide the bodies?” 29:52 · “What we need now is some long cypress poles to go in there and pull them gator caves.” 30:52 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 29:47 (passage 29:45–37:00); US record: No renewal found

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