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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 389 · permalink

River

55:13–55:33 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:1855:18Frame at 55:2655:26Frame at 55:3155:31Frame at 55:3355:33

Play from 55:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 225 · shots 672–675. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
river (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • swimmer, wearing light-colored head covering, visible in water visible
  • person being carried on swimmer's back, partially submerged visible
  • group of armed figures in foliage, some with shields and spears visible
Seen happening
  • Two people are struggling in turbulent water. [frame:1]
  • A group of armed figures is visible in dense foliage. [frame:2]
  • Turbulent water is shown with no people visible. [frame:3]
  • A swimmer is moving through water with another person on their back. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on.” 55:23 · “Oh, my God.” 55:32
Seen
spears [frame:2], shields [frame:2], head covering [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: survival, pursuit, physical endurance; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium to long shots, dynamic water movement

Two people are in turbulent water; one is swimming while the other is carried on their back. A group of armed figures is seen in dense foliage nearby.

“I'll raise that steam and I'll put him on my back. Okay, let's go.” 55:14 · “I'm going to go.” 55:21 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 55:18 (passage 55:13–55:33); US record: No renewal found

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