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Bird of Paradise · Beat 108 · permalink

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53:28–53:35 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; 2 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 53:3253:32

Play from 53:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 152–152. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person dancing, wearing light-colored garment, back to camera visible
  • group of seated people, mostly shirtless, in dim light visible
Seen happening
  • A person dances in front of a seated group under a thatched roof. [frame:1]
Seen
thatched roof [frame:1], seated group [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: performance, gathering; style notes: low-contrast black-and-white, wide shot, static camera, natural lighting

A person dances in front of a seated group under a thatched roof. The transcript contains only the word 'Oh, yeah.'

“Oh, yeah.” 53:32 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 53:32 (passage 53:28–53:35); US record: No renewal found

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