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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 46 · permalink

Ship

8:44–9:05 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; 5 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 8:458:45Frame at 8:508:50Frame at 8:558:55Frame at 9:039:03

Play from 8:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 70–76. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in white nurse's uniform and cap, holding a camera and white handbag visible
  • man in dark vest and light trousers, standing on gangway visible
  • Maru (named at t:8:59): man in ornate robe, turban, and multiple pearl necklaces visible, audible
  • man in sailor uniform with cap visible
  • woman in headscarf, partially visible behind Maru visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a nurse's uniform holds a camera and handbag while standing near men on a ship's deck. [frame:1]
  • Men in turbans and uniforms stand on the ship's deck, including one in ornate robes. [frame:2]
  • A man in ornate robes and a turban looks sternly at another man in a sailor uniform. [frame:3]
Also said
“Maru!” 8:59 · “Who do you think you are?” 9:02
Seen
camera [frame:1], white handbag [frame:1], pearl necklaces [frame:3], chain barrier [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, hierarchy, colonial encounter; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expressions and costume details

A woman in a nurse's uniform is seen holding a camera and a handbag while men in turbans and uniforms stand nearby on a ship's deck. A man in ornate robes and a turban is addressed by name as 'Maru' in the dialogue.

“Help me.” 8:45 · “Oh, my God.” 8:48 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 8:45 (passage 8:44–9:05); US record: No renewal found

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