Sea

55:45–55:50 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

55:47

Play from 55:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 158–158. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

sea (beach, exterior) evidence: frame:1

Seen happening

Small, indistinct figures are visible on the horizon over a choppy sea. [frame:1]

Seen

choppy sea [frame:1], distant figures [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: vast and remote; themes: isolation, nature; style notes: wide shot, high contrast black-and-white, distant framing

A wide shot shows a dark, choppy sea with small, distant figures visible on the horizon. No people are clearly visible in the foreground, and no dialogue or on-screen text is present.

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.

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Bird of Paradise (1932) at 55:47 (passage 55:45–55:50); US record: No renewal found

Permalink: always the current cut
Permalink to this version: warns if the beats are recut later
Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/Bird_of_Paradise_1932/b114.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/Bird_of_Paradise_1932/b114"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/Bird_of_Paradise_1932/0158.webp" alt="Frame from Bird of Paradise (1932) at 55:47 (passage 55:45–55:50); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Bird of Paradise (1932), 55:45–55:50. Internet Archive copy Bird_of_Paradise_1932; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Bird of Paradise (1932), 55:45–55:50", https://publicreel.org/moment/Bird_of_Paradise_1932/b114, from Internet Archive item Bird_of_Paradise_1932, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Sea

Evidence and details

The record

Share