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Attack of the Giant Leeches · Beat 7 · permalink

Swamp

54:54–1:02:18 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; 5 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 54:5554:55Frame at 58:0158:01Frame at 59:5459:54Frame at 1:02:131:02:13

Play from 54:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 1 · shots 120–174. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
swamp (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4
People
  • Mike (named at t:59:13): man in a hat and light shirt, older, visible in frame:3 visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a light top, visible in frame:3 visible, audible
  • man in a hat, visible in background of frame:3 visible
  • person in water, partially visible in frame:2 visible
  • Steve (named at t:56:08): person underwater, visible in frame:1 visible
Seen happening
  • A person is underwater in a dark, swampy environment. [frame:1]
  • A person is in shallow water, partially submerged, with legs visible. [frame:2]
  • A man and a woman stand together outdoors, with another man in the background. [frame:3]
  • The words 'THE END' are displayed over a swampy scene. [frame:4]
Also said
“I've been around here for years. I never saw nothing like that.” 59:43 · “I've done enough of your dirty work.” 61:06
Seen
hat, boat, THE END title card
On screen
THE END
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: radiation mutation, human vs nature, scientific hubris, survival; style notes: black-and-white, low-key lighting in swamp scenes, medium shots of characters reacting, abrupt cut to title card

A character named Steve is in danger underwater while others watch from above, discussing radiation from Cape Canaveral as a possible cause for giant creatures. The film ends with a 'THE END' title card over a swampy scene.

“You sure you don't want me to go down and finish it off for you, Steve?” 56:08 · “Maybe the proximity of Cape Canaveral's got something to do with it.” 56:39 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 54:55 (passage 54:54–1:02:18); US record: No renewal found

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