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Behave Yourself · Beat 102 · permalink

Living room

1:07:13–1:09:29 Registered 1951

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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:331:07:33Frame at 1:08:391:08:39Frame at 1:09:271:09:27

Play from 1:07:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 64 · shots 172–174. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark suit, fedora, mid-30s, medium build visible, audible
  • woman, dark dress, short curly hair, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • man, light jacket, mid-30s, medium build visible, audible
  • man, partially visible behind door, dark suit visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora leans over a table with a briefcase, speaking to someone off-screen. [frame:1]
  • A man in a light jacket holds a pillow and looks alarmed. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a dark dress stands in a doorway holding a hat, looking at a man behind a glass-paneled door. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'll get you a bigger one. I want Archie. And now come back here. Get him.” 68:18 · “Archie! That's wrong, Mr. Frank's just the same. Do it, Mr. Peer. You tried to shoot me out of my reward. Archie! You!” 69:27
Seen
briefcase, fedora, pillow, hat, glass-paneled door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: domestic conflict, suspicion and blame, the role of a pet in escalating tension; style notes: tight framing on characters, high-contrast lighting, static camera shots emphasizing dialogue and emotional reactions

A man and a woman are in a room where a dog named Archie is involved in a conflict; the man is agitated and the woman is distressed. The dialogue suggests Archie has run away and is implicated in a series of events including a murder and a theft, and the man is trying to retrieve him.

“Night gown? What night gown? For you. I bought it for you. You didn't buy me any night gown? Sure I did. That as I started to. Then Archie broke the showcase in the store. I met out the cart. You've been acting very strange lately. I'll take him home now. Do that lady and keep him there.” 67:13 · “I tell you, that dog knows plenty! Oh, what nonsense! Now Archie's a murderer. Honey, calm yourself. We'll go home now. Can I have Archie, too, please?” 67:43 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 1:07:33 (passage 1:07:13–1:09:29); US record: No renewal found

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