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Bird of Paradise · Beat 80 · permalink

Beach

34:48–35:05 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:5234:52Frame at 35:0135:01

Play from 34:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 117–118. 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
  • man, shirtless, wearing shorts, running on beach visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dress, standing near palm tree visible
  • man, shirtless, holding paddle, standing beside canoe visible
Seen happening
  • A man runs toward the water on a beach. [frame:1]
  • A man stands beside a canoe under trees, holding a paddle. [frame:2]
Seen
palm tree, canoe, paddle, beach, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: desperation, search for transport, tropical setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting, outdoor setting

A man and a woman are on a beach near a palm tree; the man runs toward the water while the woman stands near the tree. In another shot, a man stands beside a canoe under trees, holding a paddle.

“I'm not.” 34:49 · “Where can I get a canoe? I've got to have a canoe! A canoe, don't you understand?” 34:54 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 34:52 (passage 34:48–35:05); US record: No renewal found

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