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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 302 · permalink

Forest

42:25–42:29 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:2642:26Frame at 42:2842:28

Play from 42:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 182 · shots 521–522. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing light shirt and trousers, visible in jungle foliage visible
  • man wearing pith helmet and light clothing, holding rifle visible
  • man wearing pith helmet and light clothing, holding rifle visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands among jungle plants, looking upward. [frame:1]
  • Two men in hats with rifles stand in the jungle, looking toward the left. [frame:2]
Also said
“Go down!” 42:28
Seen
{'item': 'rifle', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'pith helmet', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'dense jungle foliage', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: exploration, danger, command; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium shots emphasizing characters within dense jungle environment

A man in a jungle setting is seen among dense foliage, followed by two men in hats holding rifles. The transcript includes shouted commands to look down and go down, suggesting urgency or danger.

“Look down!” 42:26 · “What's up?” 42:27 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 42:26 (passage 42:25–42:29); US record: No renewal found

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