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Bird of Paradise · Beat 137 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:12:51–1:13:48 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:13:191:13:19

Play from 1:12:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 188–188. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark naval-style uniform and cap, seated, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
  • man in lighter naval-style uniform and cap, seated, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
Also said
“- Adapter to our weight. - Oh, if I have a mistake, you've talked like some old Aunt Emma. This is 1932. The small girl and I like her. That ship we've done with a lot of hooey. You're wrong, sister.” 73:14 · “East is east and west is west.” 73:32
Seen
naval-style uniforms and caps, ropes or rigging
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and contemplative; themes: cultural clash, colonial attitudes, family duty vs. personal choice; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, confined framing emphasizing dialogue

Two men in naval-style uniforms are seated in a dimly lit interior, likely a ship's cabin, discussing a woman's fate and cultural differences. One man speaks of family and superstition while the other questions the verdict, referencing the year 1932 and dismissing sentimentality.

“How is he, Max? He'll see Rick, but he'll pull out all right.” 72:51 · “I still contend that she won't stand plan planning. You know, you take a girl who...” 73:04 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 1:13:19 (passage 1:12:51–1:13:48); US record: No renewal found

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