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Bird of Paradise · Beat 55 · permalink

Vehicle interior

23:32–26:17 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:5524:55

Play from 23:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 76–76. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Rose (named at t:25:42): man, light-colored short-sleeved shirt and light pants, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man sits in a small boat holding a stringed instrument. [frame:1]
Also said
“I don't get this, assistant.” 25:50 · “Oh, you want me to sit down? Oh, well, all right. I'll try anything. What?” 25:58
Seen
small boat [frame:1], stringed instrument [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: playful, confused; themes: isolation, performance, absurd dialogue; style notes: close shot, high contrast lighting, black and white, focused on a single character in a confined space

A man in light clothing sits in a small boat, holding a stringed instrument. He is audible singing or humming nonsensical syllables during this beat, and at one point says 'Rose' and 'I don't get this, assistant.'

“Hey, what's the big idea?” 24:32 · “Rose.” 25:42 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 24:55 (passage 23:32–26:17); US record: No renewal found

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