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Bird of Paradise · Beat 10 · permalink

Vehicle interior

3:51–4:03 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:573:57

Play from 3:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 18–18. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, light-colored shirt, light pants, thin build, visible in profile visible
  • man, light-colored shirt, seated, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • man, light-colored shirt, standing, holding rope or rigging visible
Seen happening
  • A man in light clothing is visible on a vessel with others. [frame:1]
Seen
rope or rigging [frame:1], vessel interior with wooden structure [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and slightly anxious; themes: exploration, uncertainty, voyage; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, studio lighting, staged interior

A man in light clothing is visible on a vessel with others; a voice asks what is wrong with the place and suggests it might be a Virgin Island. No named individuals appear, and the setting is not clearly identifiable beyond being on a vessel.

“What's wrong this place? Probably one of the Virgin Islands. Heaven forbid. Hey, hey, hey. Come on. Come on. Come and get me. Why is it?” 3:52 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 Bird of Paradise (1932) at 3:57 (passage 3:51–4:03); US record: No renewal found

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