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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 311 · permalink

Cave

43:15–43:34 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 43:1643:16Frame at 43:2343:23Frame at 43:2643:26Frame at 43:3243:32

Play from 43:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 186 · shots 533–538. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cave (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • swimmer, partially submerged, light-colored hair visible
  • woman, light hair, wearing a short white dress, standing visible
  • woman, light hair, wearing a short white dress, walking barefoot visible
Seen happening
  • A person surfaces in a cave pool. [frame:1]
  • The swimmer raises an arm in the water. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a white dress stands beside a chimpanzee near the cave entrance. [frame:3]
  • A woman in a white dress walks through jungle foliage. [frame:4]
Seen
chimpanzee [frame:3], white dress [frame:3, frame:4], cave walls [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], jungle foliage [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: survival, human-animal interaction, exploration; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, studio-lit jungle set, medium shots emphasizing isolation

A person swims in a cave pool and then stands on a rocky bank next to a chimpanzee; another person in a white dress walks through jungle foliage. The transcript contains fragmented speech.

“I'm.” 43:17 · “- Come on.” 43:28 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 43:16 (passage 43:15–43:34); US record: No renewal found

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