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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 425 · permalink

Gorge

59:41–1:00:03 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:4259:42Frame at 59:4959:49Frame at 59:5759:57Frame at 1:00:021:00:02

Play from 59:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 244 · shots 751–761. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
gorge (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless man, muscular build, wearing dark shorts visible
  • group of figures, some carrying spears and shields, wearing minimal clothing or loincloths visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man walks across a rope bridge spanning a deep gorge. [frame:1]
  • The man falls from the bridge into the water below. [frame:3]
  • A group of armed figures observes the fall from a cliffside. [frame:4]
Seen
rope bridge [frame:1], spears [frame:4], shields [frame:4], cliffside [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and perilous; themes: danger, survival, observation; style notes: high-contrast black and white, wide shots emphasizing scale and danger, static camera capturing action from a distance

A shirtless man crosses a rope bridge over a gorge, then falls into the water below. A group of armed figures watches from a cliffside as he falls.

“I'm going to go.” 59:42 · “Oh, my God.” 60:00 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 59:42 (passage 59:41–1:00:03); US record: No renewal found

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