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Bird of Paradise · Beat 49 · permalink

Beach

21:08–21:58 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 21:3021:30Frame at 21:5521:55

Play from 21:08 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 28 · shots 69–70. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
beach (beach, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • child, shirtless, dark hair, holding a ukulele visible
  • child, shirtless, sitting beside p1, smiling visible
  • child, shirtless, holding a dark object, looking at camera visible
  • group of people, indistinct, moving through jungle visible
  • Oscar (named at t:21:22): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Three children sit on a beach with a ukulele and other objects. [frame:1]
  • A group of people walks through a jungle path. [frame:2]
Also said
“Hey, what are you doing here? You're going to cut yourself to that. Hey there, Oscar. You and my boy's shirt. What are you doing? Hey, give me that.” 21:22 · “What's going on around here?” 21:52
Seen
ukulele, dark object held by child
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and slightly chaotic; themes: childhood play, mystery of location, spoken confusion; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up on children, wide shot of jungle path, high contrast lighting

Three children are on a sandy beach with objects including a ukulele; a separate shot shows a group of people moving through a dense jungle. A voice asks questions and calls out names, including 'Oscar', while referencing items like a hot water bottle and toothpicks.

“Hot water bottle, bicarb, Minnesota, needle and thread, a box of toothpicks, tennis rackets,” 21:13 · “a golf stick, a mama ginger ale, or in a ukulele.” 21:18 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 21:30 (passage 21:08–21:58); US record: No renewal found

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