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Bird of Paradise · Beat 62 · permalink

Beach

30:11–31:04 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; 4 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 30:1530:15Frame at 30:4130:41

Play from 30:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 90–91. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
beach (beach, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman seated, wearing light dress, holding a drum-like object visible
  • man standing, dark clothing, possibly central figure visible
  • group of people, mixed attire, some seated, some standing visible
  • Jack (named at t:30:47): unspecified, audible only audible
Also said
“Hey, Jack, you're down there.” 30:47 · “Amen.” 31:03
Seen
palm trees [frame:1], drum-like object [frame:2], light-colored clothing [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and ritualistic; themes: ritual, waiting, spiritual invocation; style notes: wide shot framing, high contrast black-and-white, natural lighting under palm trees, static camera

A group of people is gathered outdoors under palm trees, some seated and others standing, with one person speaking or calling out. The scene includes a mix of individuals in light clothing, with one frame showing a seated woman holding a drum-like object.

“Hala Paiya!” 30:12 · “Oh, my God.” 30:17 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 30:15 (passage 30:11–31:04); US record: No renewal found

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