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Beat 316

44:16–44:24 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 44:1644:16Frame at 44:2044:20

Play from 44:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 187 · shots 546–547. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People
  • indistinct figure, possibly human, partially obscured by motion blur or smoke/water; no discernible clothing or features visible
Seen happening
  • A figure is visible in a turbulent, dark environment. [frame:1]
  • The figure remains visible, partially obscured by motion or haze. [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, urgent; themes: struggle, uncertainty, urgency; style notes: high-contrast black and white, obscured visibility, dynamic motion blur suggesting chaos or struggle

A person is visible in a turbulent, dark environment, possibly water or smoke, with a voice saying 'Come on.' The setting is indistinct and no clear place type can be determined from the frames or transcript.

“Come on.” 44:23 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 44:16 (passage 44:16–44:24); US record: No renewal found

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