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Bird of Paradise · Beat 32 · permalink

Vehicle interior

8:18–8:59 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 8:388:38

Play from 8:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 49–49. 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
  • light-colored hair, wearing a light shirt, lying down visible
  • dark hair, wearing a dark shirt, leaning over p1 visible
  • gray hair, wearing a light shirt, standing near p1 visible
  • wearing a dark shirt, partially visible behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A person lies on a surface while others gather around them. [frame:1]
Also said
“Go on, sweetheart.” 8:56 · “I'm listening.” 8:57
Seen
rope [t:8:31], shark [t:8:31]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: injury, accident, group concern; style notes: close framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A person lies on a surface while others gather around, discussing an incident involving a shark and a rope. One person is prompted to continue speaking, and another is listening.

“When the shark took the bait, your foot got caught in the rope and over you went. - How'd they get out of it? - The line parted between you and the shark. - Looks like he's been cut. - Yeah. - Probably one of the natives.” 8:31 · “Which one?” 8:42 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 8:38 (passage 8:18–8:59); US record: No renewal found

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