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Bird of Paradise · Beat 58 · permalink

Forest

28:48–29:43 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:0929:09Frame at 29:3229:32Frame at 29:3529:35Frame at 29:4129:41

Play from 28:48 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 80–85. 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, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • shirtless man, dark hair, muscular build, sitting on ground visible
  • person wearing beads and patterned garment, possibly older, holding an object visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man sits on the ground, looking down. [frame:1]
  • The ground is shown with roots and soil. [frame:2]
  • A person in beads and patterned garment speaks to the shirtless man while holding an object. [frame:3]
  • The person in beads continues speaking to the shirtless man. [frame:4]
Also said
“Luana! Oh, I see. Luana.” 29:29 · “- Panaca. - Native.” 29:39
Seen
beads [frame:3, frame:4], patterned garment [frame:3, frame:4], roots and soil [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious and ritualistic; themes: cultural exchange, ritual, mystery; style notes: close-up framing, high contrast black-and-white, natural lighting, focus on character interaction

A shirtless man sits on the ground in a natural setting while another person, wearing beads and a patterned garment, speaks to him. The transcript contains fragmented dialogue, including the name 'Luana' and phrases in an unidentified language, suggesting a cultural or ritual context.

“What does it say? Luana la temata, si es.” 28:57 · “Well, I'll have to consult my secretary before I can tell you about that. Here, take a letter. Luana, lave not ahe. What's that about Luana? Lave not ahe. Ha, ha, ha. Hi.” 29:06 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 29:09 (passage 28:48–29:43); US record: No renewal found

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