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Attack of the Giant Leeches · Beat 6 · permalink

Living room

47:29–54:54 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:3747:37Frame at 50:2850:28Frame at 53:0353:03Frame at 54:5154:51

Play from 47:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 1 · shots 90–119. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, standing in living room visible, audible
  • man in dark shirt and light pants, standing in living room visible, audible
  • man in diving gear with tank, standing by water visible, audible
  • man in vest and shorts, standing by water visible, audible
  • woman in light dress, standing by water visible, audible
  • figure in diving gear underwater among reeds visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark shirt stands in a living room, talking to another man. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand in a living room, one holding a phone receiver. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a dress touches the arm of a man in a vest, while another man in diving gear stands nearby at the water's edge. [frame:3]
  • A figure in diving gear is seen underwater among tall reeds. [frame:4]
Also said
“Like a gigantic leech might make.” 49:20 · “Liz Walker. She might still be down there. Alive.” 51:06
Seen
diving tank, reeds, lamp, sofa
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: scientific mystery, dangerous unknown, human vulnerability; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots in interior, wide shots at water's edge, underwater shot with obscured visibility

A doctor reports that victims were drained of blood by suction wounds, suggesting a giant leech, and characters prepare to dive into a lake to search for survivors. One character expresses skepticism while another prepares to enter the water with diving gear.

“Every drop of blood was drained out of their bodies.” 49:11 · “Suction wounds.” 49:17 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 47:37 (passage 47:29–54:54); US record: No renewal found

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