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Bird of Paradise · Beat 59 · permalink

Native village

29:43–29:56 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names 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 29:4629:46Frame at 29:5329:53

Play from 29:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 86–87. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
native village (other, exterior) evidence: t:29:45
People
  • hand visible, working with soil visible
  • hand visible, wearing shell necklace, manipulating sticks and string visible
  • unspecified, voice only audible
Seen happening
  • A hand digs into the soil. [frame:1]
  • A hand with a shell necklace manipulates sticks and string. [frame:2]
Seen
hand, soil, hand with shell necklace, sticks and string
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious, observational; themes: manual labor, cultural activity, exploration; style notes: close-up shots, black and white, focused on hands and manual activity

A hand digs in soil and another hand works with sticks and string; a voice asks who wants to go around the native village. No named individuals or specific time of day are established.

“Who want to go around the native village, huh?” 29:45 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 29:46 (passage 29:43–29:56); US record: No renewal found

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