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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 160 · permalink

Forest

27:07–27:27 Registered 1938

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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:1127:11Frame at 27:1527:15Frame at 27:1827:18Frame at 27:2427:24

Play from 27:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 94 · shots 298–301. 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
  • man wearing a turban and light robe, holding a spear, dark-skinned visible
  • man with light hair, wearing a light-colored, open-collared shirt visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand close together in tall vegetation. [frame:1]
  • The man in the turban looks at the other man, who looks down. [frame:2]
  • A container holds sharpened sticks and what appear to be animal parts. [frame:3]
  • The man in the light shirt holds a dark object and looks off to the side. [frame:4]
Also said
“Keep points away from now.” 27:17 · “Thank you, quick.” 27:19
Seen
spear [frame:1], turban [frame:1], container with sharpened sticks and animal parts [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: encounter in the wild, preparation or ritual; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing on faces and objects, naturalistic lighting with deep shadows

Two men are in a dense, leafy outdoor setting; one wears a turban and holds a spear, the other a light shirt. A close-up shows a container with sharpened sticks and what appear to be animal parts. The transcript contains fragmented, possibly mis-transcribed lines about menus and points.

“I have them cross.” 27:09 · “Tell Ben Ali Bey to have his menu.” 27:10 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 27:11 (passage 27:07–27:27); US record: No renewal found

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