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Bird of Paradise · Beat 16 · permalink

Ship

5:12–5:36 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:235:23Frame at 5:355:35

Play from 5:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 27–28. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • person diving, shirtless, mid-air over water visible
  • group of people on a boat, wearing light-colored shirts and hats, one holding a camera visible
Seen happening
  • A person dives into the water from a boat. [frame:1]
  • People on a boat react, one holding a camera. [frame:2]
Seen
boat [frame:1], camera [frame:2], hats [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or dramatic; themes: action, voyage, observation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, static camera

A person dives from a boat into water while others watch from nearby boats. Onboard a vessel, a group of people in light clothing appear to be reacting to an event, with one person holding a camera.

“Oh, my God.” 5:30 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 5:23 (passage 5:12–5:36); US record: No renewal found

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