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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 369 · permalink

Riverbank

52:54–53:04 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:5652:56Frame at 52:5952:59Frame at 53:0253:02

Play from 52:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 217 · shots 639–641. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
riverbank (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • group of people in light-colored clothing, some carrying spears or poles, walking along a slope visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people walks along a riverbank near trees. [frame:1]
  • The group continues moving uphill, carrying a large white object. [frame:2]
  • The scene cuts to a narrow canyon with a rope bridge spanning it. [frame:3]
Seen
rope bridge [frame:3], large white object carried by people [frame:2], spears or poles [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: journey, obstacle, group movement; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots, natural lighting, outdoor setting

A group of people moves along a riverbank near trees, then the scene cuts to a narrow canyon with a rope bridge. A voice says 'Come on.'

“Come on.” 52:56 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 52:56 (passage 52:54–53:04); US record: No renewal found

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