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Behave Yourself · Beat 1 · permalink

Beat 1

0:00–2:40 Registered 1951

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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:201:20

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Also said
“The world is full of dangers. Be careful when you run. And don't take candy from strangers. If you want sweetness, come on back home. And slave yourself.” 0:47 · “To no one new, remember to behave yourself, for don't you see?” 1:00
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title card
On screen
Produced by Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: playful and admonishing; themes: romantic possession, behavioral control, home as sanctuary; style notes: static title card with illustrative drawings; black-and-white; classic studio typography

A title card credits Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna as producers, accompanied by a drawing of a woman reclining and a man's head in a hat. The transcript contains a spoken monologue advising someone to behave and return home.

“Just lock your heart and save yourself for me.” 0:30 · “Behave yourself when you're away. Recall the day you gave yourself to me.” 0:37 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 Behave Yourself (1951) at 1:20 (passage 0:00–2:40); US record: No renewal found

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