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Bird of Paradise · Beat 64 · permalink

Forest

31:09–31:49 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:1331:13Frame at 31:1931:19Frame at 31:2231:22Frame at 31:3731:37

Play from 31:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 93–96. 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
  • silhouetted figure sliding down a slope, wearing light-colored pants visible
  • person in jungle foliage, light clothing visible
  • person with long white hair, patterned garment, on beach visible
  • group of people in light clothing on beach, some with headwear visible
Seen happening
  • A person slides down a steep, grassy slope. [frame:1]
  • Two people are seen sitting or crouching in dense jungle foliage. [frame:3]
  • A group of people, including one with long white hair, are on a beach near boats. [frame:4]
  • A person is seen sliding down a slope. [frame:2]
Also said
“Hey.” 31:16 · “From town to town.” 31:27
Seen
slope [frame:1], jungle foliage [frame:3], beach [frame:4], boats [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and chaotic; themes: survival, movement, group dynamics; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide shots of natural terrain, medium shots of group interactions on beach

A person slides down a slope and is later seen with others in a jungle and on a beach. Spoken lines include calls for help and references to moving from town to town.

“We can whip it. Whip!” 31:12 · “Help me.” 31:15 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 31:13 (passage 31:09–31:49); US record: No renewal found

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