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Behave Yourself · Beat 114 · permalink

Private office

1:15:31–1:15:36 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:15:321:15:32Frame at 1:15:351:15:35

Play from 1:15:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 193–194. 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, middle-aged, wearing a checkered jacket and bow tie, holding a gun visible, audible
  • man, younger, wearing a hat and sweater vest, wide-eyed expression visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a checkered jacket holds a gun and looks toward the camera. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat and sweater vest reacts with wide eyes. [frame:2]
Seen
gun [frame:1], hat [frame:2], sweater vest [frame:2], checkered jacket [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: threat, confrontation, suspense; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film style

A man in a checkered jacket holds a gun while speaking; another man in a hat reacts with surprise. The dialogue includes a threat and a reference to 'the other one.'

“Open your mouth and you're dead.” 75:31 · “The other one.” 75:35 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 1:15:32 (passage 1:15:31–1:15:36); US record: No renewal found

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