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Bird of Paradise · Beat 125 · permalink

Beach

58:54–59:10 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:5958:59Frame at 59:0759:07

Play from 58:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 173–174. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
beach (beach, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted male figure standing on rocks, facing sea visible
  • male figure running toward camera, wearing a short garment, holding something to mouth visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on rocks facing the sea. [frame:1]
  • A man runs toward the camera with an object held to his mouth. [frame:2]
Seen
rocks [frame:1], distant landmass [frame:1], palm frond [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: command, movement, coastal setting; style notes: low-angle shot, high-contrast lighting, silhouetted figures against bright sky

A man stands on a rocky shore facing the sea while another runs toward the camera; the transcript includes a shouted command. The setting is a beach with distant land visible.

“Go up! Go up!” 58:54 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 58:59 (passage 58:54–59:10); US record: No renewal found

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