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Mr. Robinson Crusoe · Beat 3 · permalink

Jungle

55:35–1:03:04 Registered 1932

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

Frame at 55:4155:41Frame at 57:0557:05Frame at 1:00:121:00:12Frame at 1:02:571:02:57

Play from 55:35 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 129–157. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jungle (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing white shirt, white pants, and pith helmet visible
  • Johnny (named at t:55:47): unseen, referenced as 'Johnny' audible, mentioned
  • Nate (named at t:57:30): unseen, referenced as 'Nate' audible, mentioned
  • Delmar (named at t:62:32): unseen, referenced as 'Delmar' audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man lies on a woven mat. [frame:1]
  • A man in white clothing stands in a dim interior. [frame:2]
  • A man runs through a jungle path. [frame:3]
  • A man in white shirt and pith helmet gestures while speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Do you play bridge? Yes.” 56:01 · “This is Saturday. Saturday to my friend. My friend is a Saturday. You're just in time for a Robinson Crusoe cocktail.” 61:49
Seen
woven mat [frame:1], pith helmet [frame:4], radio [t:55:47], football [t:55:58], bridge cards [t:56:01], thousand dollar bill [t:62:41], piano [t:62:11], jungle path [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and comedic; themes: cultural clash, island survival, radio and modernity, absurdity of civilization; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, staged jungle set

A man in white clothing is seen in a hut-like interior and a jungle setting, while dialogue references radio, savages, football, and bridge. The transcript includes exclamations, a mention of Mussolini, and a reference to a Robinson Crusoe cocktail.

“Johnny, stop moving to that radio. You see I'm talking?” 55:47 · “We're savages.” 55:53 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 Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932) at 55:41 (passage 55:35–1:03:04); US record: No renewal found

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