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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 325 · permalink

Forest

45:28–45:49 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 45:3445:34Frame at 45:4545:45

Play from 45:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 193 · shots 560–561. 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, frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless, wearing light-colored shorts, lying on ferns visible
Seen happening
  • A person is lying on large ferns under a moonlit sky. [frame:1]
  • The person remains lying on the ferns, partially obscured by foliage. [frame:2]
Seen
moon, large ferns, large ferns
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, solitary; themes: isolation, nature, rest; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, low-angle shot, natural setting with dramatic lighting from moon

A person lies on large ferns under a night sky with a visible moon. No dialogue or named characters are present in the frames or transcript.

“Hmm.” 45:40 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 45:34 (passage 45:28–45:49); US record: No renewal found

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