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Bird of Paradise · Beat 54 · permalink

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23:30–23:32 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:3123:31

Play from 23:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 75–75. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark-clothed, seated figure holding a long object, possibly a spear or staff, with a blurred dark shape above them visible
  • partially visible figure to the left, dark silhouette, no discernible features visible
Seen
long object (possibly spear or staff) [frame:1], smoke or haze [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or mysterious; themes: confrontation, uncertainty; style notes: low-contrast black-and-white, high-angle shot, figures partially obscured by smoke or shadow, suggesting dramatic lighting typical of early sound films

A single frame from a 1932 film shows two figures in a dim, smoky interior; one is seated and holding a long object, the other is partially visible to the left. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 23:31 (passage 23:30–23:32); US record: No renewal found

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