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Attack of the Giant Leeches · Beat 5 · permalink

Swamp

43:56–47:29 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; 3 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 44:0644:06Frame at 46:1946:19Frame at 47:0247:02Frame at 47:2647:26

Play from 43:56 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 69–89. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
swamp (other, exterior) evidence: t:44:04, t:44:07, frame:4
People
  • Doc (named at t:44:11): man, middle-aged, wearing a light-colored collared shirt, seated, serious expression visible, audible
  • Dad (named at t:45:20): unseen, referred to as 'Dad' and 'Steve' audible, mentioned
  • Steve (named at t:45:00): unseen, referred to as 'Steve' audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • Something moves beneath the surface of the swamp water. [frame:4]
Also said
“Explosion underwater would destroy every living thing and wreck what nature took years to build up.” 44:35 · “Can't you throw the dynamite in from here?” 45:23
Seen
dynamite [t:44:13], diving equipment [t:45:00], swamp water [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: conflict over methods, environmental concern, unseen threat in nature; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting on the man's face, murky underwater shots with obscured details, static camera on dialogue

A man argues against using dynamite to retrieve bodies from a swamp, citing environmental harm and lack of authorization; another man, called 'Dad', considers throwing dynamite from shore. The final frames show murky water with indistinct shapes moving beneath the surface.

“There are no alligators in that part of the swamp, right?” 44:04 · “Well, that goes to argument about setting off a dynamite charge underwater.” 44:13 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 44:06 (passage 43:56–47:29); US record: No renewal found

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