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Bird of Paradise · Beat 127 · permalink

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59:42–1:00:17 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:001:00:00

Play from 59:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 176–176. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

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(other)
Seen
long dark object
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: uncertain; style notes: high-contrast black and white, extreme motion blur, low resolution, indistinct framing

A single frame shows a dark, blurry figure holding a long object against a turbulent, light background. No people are named, no events are described, and no place is identifiable from the visual evidence.

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 1:00:00 (passage 59:42–1:00:17); US record: No renewal found

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