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Bird of Paradise · Beat 18 · permalink

Ship

5:59–6:27 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:016:01Frame at 6:086:08Frame at 6:206:20

Play from 5:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 30–32. 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
People
  • man wearing a cap and light-colored shirt, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • man in dark clothing, partially visible, mid-adult visible
  • Jeremy (named at t:6:15): man in light shirt and cap, smiling, mid-adult visible
  • man in light shirt, standing, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cap is seen smiling while being addressed. [frame:3]
Also said
“Hey, Jeremy. See you for the grill over there?” 6:15 · “There's a present for you.” 6:17
Seen
cap, ship deck railing, sail or tarpaulin
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but colloquial, with a mix of confrontation and casual address; themes: authority and compliance, social interaction on a vessel, discarding objects as symbolic act; style notes: medium shots on a ship deck, high-contrast lighting, static camera framing

A man in a cap is confronted by others on a ship's deck; he is told to throw items overboard while another man calls out to Jeremy about a grill. The scene involves physical interaction and dialogue about discarding objects.

“I want you boys to get rid of these things for a long time.” 5:59 · “Hey, wait a minute. What are you doing, Mr. Kutley? Come here, you. There, throw those things. Now, all right. Oh, the bad thing. Oh, the poor thing. Oh, the poor thing. It's a green business, you guys.” 6:03 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 6:01 (passage 5:59–6:27); US record: No renewal found

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