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17:02–17:46 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:1817:18Frame at 17:3517:35Frame at 17:4117:41

Play from 17:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 26 · shots 62–64. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other)
People
  • wearing light-colored trousers, dark top; visible from waist down in frame:1, full figure in frame:2, upper body in frame:3; build and age indeterminate due to low resolution and darkness visible
Seen happening
  • A person in light trousers is visible in a dark setting. [frame:1]
  • A figure is seen standing in a misty or smoky environment. [frame:2]
  • A person is visible from the side, head turned down, in darkness. [frame:3]
Seen
light-colored trousers [frame:1], dark top [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and obscure; themes: confrontation, darkness and obscurity; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, grainy film stock, static framing

A person in light trousers is visible in a dark setting across three frames; a voice says 'Go to the devil. I'll get even with you.' No named characters or clear location are established.

“I don't know.” 17:08 · “Go to the devil. I'll get even with you.” 17:38 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 17:18 (passage 17:02–17:46); US record: No renewal found

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