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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 44 · permalink

Riverbank

8:28–8:42 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; 7 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 8:308:30Frame at 8:368:36Frame at 8:408:40

Play from 8:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 66–68. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
riverbank (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in a patterned dress, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in a fedora and light shirt, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in dark shirt and light pants, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in dark shirt and hat, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in dark shirt and shorts, mid-adult, average build visible
  • woman in white nurse's cap and uniform, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in light shirt and hat, mid-adult, average build visible
Seen happening
  • People stand on the deck of the S.S. Congo Hope riverboat. [frame:1]
  • Men carry a large object while others watch or hold rifles. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a nurse's cap looks on as men carry the object past her. [frame:3]
Also said
“Take it up to the office.” 8:34 · “Shoot!” 8:38
Seen
S.S. Congo Hope riverboat [frame:1], large wooden object being carried [frame:2], rifles [frame:2], nurse's cap [frame:3]
On screen
S.S. CONGO HOPE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: conflict, rescue or transport, colonial setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium to close shots, natural outdoor lighting, crowded composition

A group of people are on and around a riverboat named S.S. Congo Hope; some are carrying a large object while others watch or speak. A woman in a nurse's cap is visible inside a wooden structure as men carry the object past her.

“I thought it was...” 8:32 · “Take that scum.” 8:33 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 8:30 (passage 8:28–8:42); US record: No renewal found

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