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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 435 · permalink

Theatre

1:02:07–1:02:25 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:081:02:08Frame at 1:02:111:02:11Frame at 1:02:211:02:21Frame at 1:02:241:02:24

Play from 1:02:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 247 · shots 794–798. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man with mustache, wearing ornate robe and feathered turban, seated on a decorated chair visible
  • group of female dancers in white flowing costumes, performing on a circular stage visible
  • audience members including men in turbans and women in traditional attire, seated on the floor and in chairs visible
  • men in dark uniforms viewed from behind, seated in rows facing the stage visible
Seen
{'item': 'ornate throne-like chair', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'circular stage with dancers', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'decorative backdrop with floral and feathered elements', 'evidence': 'frame:1, frame:3'} [frame:1, frame:3], {'item': 'turbans and traditional costumes', 'evidence': 'frame:3, frame:4'} [frame:3, frame:4], {'item': 'stage lighting and curtains', 'evidence': 'frame:4'} [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ceremonial and theatrical; themes: performance, hierarchy, cultural spectacle; style notes: static medium and wide shots, high-contrast studio lighting, staged composition with foreground audience framing the stage

A man in ornate attire sits on a throne-like chair while dancers perform on a circular stage; an audience including men in turbans watches from the foreground and sides. The setting appears to be an indoor performance space with decorative backdrops and stage lighting.

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 1:02:08 (passage 1:02:07–1:02:25); US record: No renewal found

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