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Bird of Paradise · Beat 91 · permalink

Forest

41:39–43:42 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:4142:41

Play from 41:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 130–130. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless, male build, running visible
  • wearing light garment, possibly female, running visible
Seen happening
  • Two figures run through a wooded area. [frame:1]
Also said
“- Ew! - Oh, look. - Eleanor! - Oh, look.” 42:43 · “Look at me!” 43:35
Seen
trees [frame:1], light garment [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and reactive; themes: flight, discovery, identity; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural lighting, outdoor setting

Two figures, one shirtless and one in a light garment, run through a wooded area. Dialogue includes exclamations about power, home, water, and a character named Ollie, followed by a reaction to someone's appearance.

“No! Oh, I see what you mean. Power.” 42:23 · “Ollie? Ollie?” 42:30 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 42:41 (passage 41:39–43:42); US record: No renewal found

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