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Behave Yourself · Beat 107 · permalink

Private office

1:12:32–1:12:45 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:12:331:12:33Frame at 1:12:371:12:37Frame at 1:12:421:12:42

Play from 1:12:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 180–182. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit, lying on floor, holding a cat visible
  • man in light coat and fedora, standing, approaching p1 visible
  • Chief (named at t:72:36): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A cat walks across a carpeted floor toward a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit lies on the floor holding a cat, with a hat on the floor nearby. [frame:2]
  • A man in a fedora and coat stands holding the cat while another man approaches him. [frame:3]
Seen
cat, hat, suit, fedora, coat, brick wall, bookshelves
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: conflict, intervention, animal as prop; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, high contrast lighting

A man in a suit is seen on the floor holding a cat, then standing while holding the cat as another man in a hat approaches. A voice is heard calling out to someone named Chief and urging them to get up.

“Hey, it's me, you dumb mother. It's me. Wait. Get up, Chief. Get up. Hey, Chief. Get up. Come on.” 72:36 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 1:12:33 (passage 1:12:32–1:12:45); US record: No renewal found

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