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Bird of Paradise · Beat 86 · permalink

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38:54–39:31 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:1339:13

Play from 38:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 124–124. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored top and possibly a necklace, mid-frame, smiling, mid-dance pose visible
  • crowd of people, indistinct, some seated, some standing, in background visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A woman dances in front of a crowd. [frame:1]
Seen
necklace [frame:1], light-colored top [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or interruptive; themes: interruption of performance, crowd dynamics, unspecified conflict; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, focused on central dancer with shallow depth of field, crowd blurred in background, high contrast lighting

A woman dances in a crowded setting while a voice says it is not the time and calls out. No names are spoken, and the place is not clearly identifiable from the frame or transcript.

“Now, men, it's not the time.” 39:13 · “Hey!” 39:15 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 39:13 (passage 38:54–39:31); US record: No renewal found

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