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Bird of Paradise · Beat 8 · permalink

Beach

2:32–3:48 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 2:522:52Frame at 3:233:23Frame at 3:413:41

Play from 2:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 5 · shots 14–16. 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
  • dark silhouette, standing on beach near palm trees visible
  • group of people in small boats on water, some holding paddles visible
  • Sandy (named at t:3:13): man in white shirt and light-colored hat, standing on boat visible, audible
  • Audrey (named at t:3:13): person with light-colored hair, seen from behind, wearing light shirt visible
Also said
“- Audrey! - Yeah, Sandy.” 3:13 · “Oh, you don't just want to be a cannibal, do you? Well, if they are, we'll be the mule. They're not allowed to eat ham. Don't do that. I'm finished.” 3:38
Seen
palm trees, sailboat, small boats, paddles, white shirt, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: conflict, escape, social hierarchy; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of beach and water, medium close-ups on boat, high contrast lighting

People are on a beach and in small boats near a sailboat; one person calls out to others while another says they are leaving. A man in a white shirt and hat speaks to others on a boat, with dialogue about being a 'cannibal' and 'mule'.

“Mailers, come and get it. Now, now, now, now, women and children first.” 2:33 · “I'm out of here!” 3:10 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 2:52 (passage 2:32–3:48); US record: No renewal found

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