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Behave Yourself · Beat 108 · permalink

Private office

1:12:45–1:13:24 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:13:051:13:05

Play from 1:12:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 183–183. 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:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, grabbing another man's shirt visible
  • man in light shirt and fedora, being grabbed, looking alarmed visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing to the right, observing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit grabs another man by the shirt collar. [frame:1]
Also said
“You mean I passed 100 G's in the queer? No, no, she's stolen. Oh, yes, you ask Mr. O'Reilly. He's in the homicide department where they have murders and things. The money pay? Well, I got that. That's my sonny!” 73:14
Seen
fedora hats [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], light shirt [frame:1], wooden wall paneling [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: crime, deception, confrontation; style notes: tight framing on three men, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, mid-century costume design

Three men are in a dim interior; one grabs another by the shirt while a third looks on. A transcript reveals a dispute over counterfeit money and a reference to a police officer named O'Reilly.

“Oh, oh, you killed Archie! Oh, that's too bad, you... Now, go get it. I tell you, we brought the money to the police. A hundred Gs.” 72:50 · “You mean you give the cops 100 Gs? Yes! It was no good! Any idiot, even a blind one, could tell that money was phony!” 73:04 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 1:13:05 (passage 1:12:45–1:13:24); US record: No renewal found

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