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35:05–37:19 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:1236:12

Play from 35:05 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 45 · shots 119–119. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless, wearing light-colored pants, visible from side, appears young adult visible
  • partially visible behind p1, wearing light shirt, face obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man holds an object and gestures toward another person. [frame:1]
Also said
“You take it. Now you get me canoe, canoe, see? Canoe.” 36:15 · “Good job, huh? Great idea. Here, put some on my back.” 36:28
Seen
object held by p1, pants
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation with undertones of urgency and coercion; themes: barter and exchange, power dynamics, cultural ritual (implied by 'Taboo'); style notes: black-and-white, low-key lighting, tight framing on characters, minimal background detail

A shirtless man interacts with another person while holding an object, negotiating for a canoe in exchange for an item. The setting appears to be outdoors at night or in low light, with minimal background detail visible.

“Oh, Taboo Bunk, I've got to have a canoe. A canoe. Taboo power.” 35:20 · “Here, you get me a canoe, I'll give you this. Nice and soft.” 35:28 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 36:12 (passage 35:05–37:19); US record: No renewal found

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