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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 85 · permalink

Riverbank

16:02–16:21 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:0616:06Frame at 16:1316:13Frame at 16:1816:18

Play from 16:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 152–154. 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
  • dark, wet, hairy figure, possibly costumed, emerging from water visible
Seen happening
  • A figure is visible in the water near a rocky bank. [frame:1]
  • The figure splashes as it moves through the water. [frame:2]
  • The figure walks away from the water onto the bank. [frame:3]
Seen
water [frame:1], rocky bank [frame:1], vegetation [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: emergence, departure; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting, static camera

A figure emerges from water near a rocky bank and walks away. The transcript contains two short spoken lines during this sequence.

“- Yes.” 16:04 · “I'm going to go.” 16:10 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 16:06 (passage 16:02–16:21); US record: No renewal found

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