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Bird of Paradise · Beat 3 · permalink

Ship

1:00–1:24 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:011:01Frame at 1:051:05Frame at 1:161:16

Play from 1:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 4–6. 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 climbing rigging, wearing dark top and light pants visible
  • man in dark uniform with cap, standing on deck visible, audible
  • man in dark uniform with cap, standing next to p2 visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and cap, wearing dark sunglasses visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and hat, partially visible behind p2 and p3 visible
Seen happening
  • A man climbs the ship's rigging. [frame:1]
  • Two men in uniform stand on deck, one speaking. [frame:2]
  • Three men sit on deck, one wearing sunglasses. [frame:3]
Also said
“And I forgot to bring my water wing.” 1:18 · “Good morning, St. Peter.” 1:20
Seen
ship rigging, ship deck, ship wheel, sunglasses, sailor caps
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted with undertones of peril; themes: nautical adventure, humor under pressure, measurement and risk; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots on deck, close-up on climber, natural lighting

A man climbs rigging on a ship while others on deck discuss depth measurements and ship clearance. One person jokes about forgetting a water wing and addresses St. Peter.

“Four and a half, King Shalhoub! Four and a half! And a half! Judge, there's three fathoms in the battle. Hey, Tinker, he's that main chief. How many feet in the fathom? Six.” 1:00 · “Oh, my God.” 1:10 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 1:01 (passage 1:00–1:24); US record: No renewal found

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