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Bird of Paradise · Beat 57 · permalink

Forest

26:59–28:48 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:0027:00Frame at 27:5427:54

Play from 26:59 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 33 · shots 78–79. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person wearing light-colored short-sleeved shirt and light pants, visible from waist up, standing among foliage visible
Seen happening
  • A person is visible standing among dense foliage. [frame:1]
  • The person remains visible among foliage, slightly shifted in posture. [frame:2]
Also said
“Happy carefree people. On the light wines and dancing, huh? Right.” 27:57 · “I'll be right back.” 28:47
Seen
foliage [frame:1], light-colored shirt and pants [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense, contrasted with a spoken reference to carefree enjoyment; themes: escape, contrast between freedom and constraint, nature as refuge or obstacle; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, tight framing on foliage and person, suggesting concealment or isolation

A person in light clothing is visible among dense foliage, with dialogue suggesting urgency and a contrast with carefree people. No named individuals or specific time of day are established.

“Come on, baby.” 27:04 · “We've got to make a run for it.” 27:06 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 27:00 (passage 26:59–28:48); US record: No renewal found

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