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Behave Yourself · Beat 104 · permalink

Living room

1:10:18–1:10:56 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; 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 1:10:371:10:37

Play from 1:10:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 176–176. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a light shirt and vest, medium build visible, audible
  • woman, blonde curly hair, wearing a dark dress with ruffles, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman are embracing in a living room. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, I couldn't take another night of muddy snoring.” 70:34 · “Reward? That man, just now day him, he said you advertised. So? I'll cancel the ad in a little while. Oh, come on, darling. Mother will be away for hours. Dymetics tonight. We've got the whole house all to ourselves.” 70:49
Seen
potted plant [frame:1], wood-paneled wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and playful with undertones of domestic friction; themes: domestic life, romantic banter, advertising as plot device; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, black-and-white film, static framing

A man and a woman are in a close embrace indoors; the woman speaks to him with affection and exasperation, referencing snoring and an advertisement. She mentions their mother being away and plans for the evening.

“Darling, darling. Huh?” 70:22 · “Oh, you big mallard head, you.” 70:29 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 1:10:37 (passage 1:10:18–1:10:56); US record: No renewal found

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