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Bird of Paradise · Beat 124 · permalink

Forest

58:07–58:54 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:3158:31

Play from 58:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 172–172. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • unseen, but audible; likely off-screen or partially visible in foliage audible
Also said
“Joanna!” 58:19 · “Go on up.” 58:20
Seen
dense foliage [frame:1], dirt path [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: urgency, nature as obstacle, off-screen command; style notes: static wide shot, high contrast black and white, natural lighting, no visible characters in frame

A person is urged to go up a path in a dense, overgrown outdoor area. The scene is shot in black and white with no visible structures or clear time of day.

“Go on up!” 58:12 · “Come on!” 58:15 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 58:31 (passage 58:07–58:54); US record: No renewal found

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