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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 139 · permalink

Forest

24:20–24:37 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; 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 24:2424:24Frame at 24:2924:29Frame at 24:3224:32Frame at 24:3524:35

Play from 24:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 258–261. 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
  • shirtless man, muscular, wearing loincloth, dark hair visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing light dress, holding a small animal visible, audible
  • man wearing pith helmet, light shirt, shorts, carrying a rifle and a small animal visible
  • man wearing pith helmet, light shirt, shorts, carrying a rifle visible
  • man, dark skin, wearing light shirt, visible in background visible
  • man, dark skin, wearing light shirt, visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people walks through a jungle path. [frame:1]
  • One man stumbles or kneels on the path while others look on. [frame:2]
  • A shirtless man and a chimpanzee sit together on a log. [frame:3]
  • A woman and a man in a pith helmet carry small animals while walking through the jungle. [frame:4]
Also said
“- Take him? - Why not?” 24:33
Seen
rifle [frame:1], small animal (possibly monkey or cat) [frame:4], pith helmet [frame:1], chimpanzee [frame:3], loincloth [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: adventurous, slightly tense; themes: exploration, human-animal interaction, jungle adventure; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural jungle lighting, staged action

A group of people, including a shirtless man and a woman, walk through a jungle with animals. One person speaks about taking someone, and another calls someone 'darling'.

“What?” 24:27 · “Aren't you darling? Oh, what a prize.” 24:31 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 24:24 (passage 24:20–24:37); US record: No renewal found

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