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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 120 · permalink

Forest

21:15–21:38 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 21:1721:17Frame at 21:2821:28Frame at 21:3221:32Frame at 21:3721:37

Play from 21:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 228–233. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a pith helmet, light-colored shirt and shorts, dark boots, lying on a log visible
  • shirtless, dark shorts, muscular build, standing with a chimpanzee visible
  • wearing light-colored shirt and shorts, climbing a tree visible
  • wearing light-colored shirt and shorts, lying or fallen on ground visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a pith helmet lies on a log while another man stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • A shirtless man stands with a chimpanzee in a jungle. [frame:2]
  • A man in light clothing stands on a log, arms outstretched. [frame:3]
  • A man climbs a tree while another lies on the ground below. [frame:4]
Also said
“- Pull it out. - No, never, don't go. Don't leave me here in this place. Never! Never! Don't go! Never!” 21:30
Seen
pith helmet [frame:1], chimpanzee [frame:2], log [frame:1], tree [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: survival, helplessness, separation; style notes: black-and-white, medium to long shots, natural jungle lighting, dynamic framing with characters in motion

A man in a pith helmet and another shirtless man are in a jungle setting; one is on a log while the other stands nearby with a chimpanzee. A person is later seen falling or lying on the ground as another climbs a tree.

“Here.” 21:19 · “- Awkward, that's all. - You're just helpless, that's all.” 21:22 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 Tarzan's Revenge (1938) at 21:17 (passage 21:15–21:38); US record: No renewal found

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