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Attack of the Giant Leeches · Beat 4 · permalink

Swamp

37:00–43:56 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:2840:28

Play from 37:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 1 · shots 68–68. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
swamp (other, exterior) evidence: t:37:47, t:38:14, t:40:29, t:42:46
People
  • man in light shirt, visible in dark outdoor setting visible
  • Colvis (named at t:37:57): unspecified, audible only audible
  • Doc (named at t:38:25): unspecified, audible only audible
  • Nan (named at t:38:25): unspecified, audible only audible
  • Doak Evans (named at t:38:31): unspecified, audible only audible
  • Mr. Benton (named at t:42:36): unspecified, audible only audible
  • Steve (named at t:43:22): unspecified, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • A man is seen standing in a dark, wooded area. [frame:1]
Also said
“Maybe a mineral contamination.” 43:33 · “diving rig and go down to look for this monster of yours.” 43:47
Seen
{'item': 'man in light shirt', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'dark wooded background', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: disappearance, community response, environmental anomaly, unseen threat; style notes: black-and-white, low-key lighting, tight framing on characters in natural setting

A group discusses the disappearance of two men near a lake, organizes a search party, and notes the unnatural absence of alligators. One man, Steve, suggests investigating water contamination or diving to search underwater, citing his Navy training.

“Old Sam Peters and Porky Reed have disappeared.” 37:47 · “It's real unnatural.” 42:59 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 40:28 (passage 37:00–43:56); US record: No renewal found

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