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Bird of Paradise · Beat 67 · permalink

Beach

31:55–32:03 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:5931:59

Play from 31:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 99–99. 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
  • ceremonial attire, possibly a leader or priest, standing upright visible
  • wearing headdress and holding a spear, gesturing toward p1 visible
  • group of people in background, some holding spears, standing in line visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A person in ceremonial attire stands on a beach while others gather around. [frame:1]
  • One person gestures toward the central figure while holding a spear. [frame:1]
  • A line of people holding spears stands in the background. [frame:1]
Seen
spear [frame:1], ceremonial attire [frame:1], headdress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: ritual, accusation, confrontation; style notes: static wide shot, high contrast black-and-white, ceremonial costuming, staged group composition

A person in ceremonial attire stands on a beach as others gather around; one person gestures while another line of people holds spears. A voice accuses someone of scamming.

“You scammed them!” 31:55 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 31:59 (passage 31:55–32:03); US record: No renewal found

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