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Bird of Paradise · Beat 48 · permalink

Vehicle interior

19:05–21:08 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:1019:10Frame at 20:1220:12

Play from 19:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 67–68. 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: t:20:21
People
  • visible underwater, shirtless, dark hair, muscular build visible
  • Matt (named at t:20:16): audible, male voice, concerned tone audible
  • Matthew (named at t:20:57): audible, male voice, authoritative tone audible
  • Mac (named at t:20:27): audible, male voice, skeptical tone audible
  • Skipper (named at t:20:21): audible, male voice, commanding tone audible
Seen happening
  • A man is underwater, struggling or swimming. [frame:1]
  • A man is seen underwater, face visible, mouth open as if shouting or gasping. [frame:2]
Also said
“What are you grinning about, Mac? Well, as a matter of fact, I had a long talk with Johnny last night. He's decided to stay on the island, and we'll pick him up on our way back. Got it. Oh, you're kidding, Mac. Johnny, somewhere on that boat. No, I'm not kidding, and as a matter of fact, I think it's a swell idea. I wish I'd done the same thing when I was a kid.” 20:27 · “Matthew, you mad... No, I'm not mad. I think I know Johnny a little better than you fellas. Matter of fact, I'm for him 100% and I told him so last night. So that's that. Now, don't you worry about Johnny. I packed his duffel bag and put in everything you need.” 20:57
Seen
man underwater, man underwater, face visible
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: conflict, separation, loyalty, survival; style notes: black-and-white, underwater shots with high contrast, tight framing on faces, dramatic lighting

A man is seen underwater in two frames while voices argue above about a missing person named Johnny, who is said to have chosen to stay on an island. The group debates returning for him, but one man named Matthew insists Johnny is safe and they will not turn back.

“Hey, Matt! What's happened to Johnny? I can't find him. What guns must let him?” 20:16 · “Hey, Schipper, is Johnny up forward? I haven't seen any up forward, is he? Well, follow the rocket. Johnny's not on the boat.” 20:21 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 19:10 (passage 19:05–21:08); US record: No renewal found

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