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Tarzan's Revenge · Beat 94 · permalink

Rocky slope near cave

17:26–17:52 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:2717:27Frame at 17:3217:32Frame at 17:4117:41Frame at 17:5217:52

Play from 17:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 166–173. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
rocky slope near cave (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing dark shorts, bare-chested, muscular build visible
Seen happening
  • A person falls into water near rocks. [frame:1]
  • Water splashes violently from the impact. [frame:2]
  • Ripples and spray spread across the water surface. [frame:3]
  • The person emerges from the water near a cave entrance. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, my God.” 17:36 · “What?” 17:51
Seen
rocky slope [frame:1], cave entrance [frame:4], water [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and sudden; themes: danger, surprise, survival; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dynamic splash shots, tight framing on action

A person falls into water near a rocky cave, causing a splash, and then emerges from the water. The scene includes reactions of surprise from off-screen voices.

“Ah!” 17:28 · “What?” 17:29 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 17:27 (passage 17:26–17:52); US record: No renewal found

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