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Bird of Paradise · Beat 2 · permalink

Ship

0:13–1:00 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 0:310:31Frame at 0:520:52Frame at 0:580:58

Play from 0:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–3. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark uniform and cap, standing on deck visible
  • man in dark uniform and cap, smiling, standing near wheel visible
  • man in light shirt and trousers, holding rope, standing on deck visible
Seen
{'item': "ship's wheel", 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'rope', 'frame': 3}, {'item': 'mountains in background', 'frame': 3}
On screen
IKINS CARROLL CLARK CLEM PORTMAN ARCHIE MARSHBK by. LLOYD KNECHTEL CLYDE Da by CIBN ANDRIOT ACA
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: navigation, maritime peril, team communication; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots on deck, natural lighting, static framing

Two men in uniform stand on a ship's deck near the sea; a third man in light clothing stands on deck with mountains visible behind him. The transcript includes shouted numbers and a comment about a shallow spot between bridges.

“Five and a half thousand! Five and a half thousand! Five and a half!” 0:30 · “That smooth spot's between the two lines of bridges. Yeah, I see it. Four and a half getting shallow fast!” 0:52 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 0:31 (passage 0:13–1:00); US record: No renewal found

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