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Bird of Paradise · Beat 76 · permalink

Forest

34:12–34:38 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:1434:14Frame at 34:2034:20Frame at 34:3134:31

Play from 34:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 111–113. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • woman wearing feathered headdress and lei, seated visible
  • man wearing patterned skirt and necklace, seated visible
  • man shirtless, wearing white pants and belt, standing near tree visible
  • man wearing necklace and patterned garment, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a feathered headdress is seated among others. [frame:1]
  • The woman in the headdress is shown in close-up. [frame:2]
  • A shirtless man is restrained near a palm tree by another man. [frame:3]
Also said
“Untie the rope!” 34:35
Seen
feathered headdress, lei, palm tree, rope
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and performative; themes: restraint, performance, tropical exoticism; style notes: static medium and close-up shots, high-contrast black and white, theatrical costuming

A woman in a feathered headdress is shown among others in a tropical setting, followed by a man being restrained near a palm tree. The transcript includes fragmented phrases, some of which suggest a struggle or performance.

“We are all on the bed. I'm not. I don't hate it.” 34:20 · “Untie my hand!” 34:33 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 34:14 (passage 34:12–34:38); US record: No renewal found

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