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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 390 · permalink

River

55:33–55:51 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; 2 names 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 55:3455:34Frame at 55:3755:37Frame at 55:4255:42Frame at 55:4955:49

Play from 55:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 225 · shots 676–682. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
river (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Eleanor (named at t:55:39): woman with light-colored swim cap, swimming visible
  • Matt (named at t:55:43): unseen, shouting audible
Seen happening
  • Water splashes violently, suggesting someone is struggling or entering the water. [frame:1]
  • A person is seen swimming with forceful strokes in a river. [frame:3]
  • A large splash occurs, possibly from someone falling or being pulled under. [frame:4]
Also said
“- Matt!” 55:43 · “Help!” 55:47
Seen
water [frame:1], swim cap [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent, chaotic; themes: danger, rescue attempt, wilderness peril; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, close framing on water action, rapid cuts between splashes and swimmer

A woman named Eleanor is seen swimming in water while others shout for her to return and call for help. The scene includes splashing water and a person shouting 'Matt!' and 'Help!' as she struggles.

“Elephant!” 55:38 · “Come back, Eleanor!” 55:39 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 55:34 (passage 55:33–55:51); US record: No renewal found

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