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Behave Yourself · Beat 116 · permalink

Private office

1:15:45–1:16:58 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:15:511:15:51Frame at 1:16:011:16:01Frame at 1:16:231:16:23Frame at 1:16:491:16:49

Play from 1:15:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 196–199. 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, frame:2
People
  • man, mid-30s, wearing a fedora, light shirt, and vest, medium build visible, audible
  • man, standing, wearing dark suit and hat, back to camera visible
  • man, seated on floor or low chair, wearing light shirt and vest visible
  • man, climbing stairs, wearing dark pants and shirt visible
  • man, standing, wearing hat and coat, facing p3 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a vest and hat gestures while speaking. [frame:1]
  • Several men are gathered in a room; one is seated on the floor, others standing. [frame:2]
  • A man climbs stairs while another watches from below. [frame:3]
  • A man leans forward, looking intently at something off-screen. [frame:4]
Also said
“Pete the Pusher. You got Max the Umbrella, short weight Bert, and now Pete the Pusher no less. It's a clean up. How did you do it?” 76:34 · “Oh, Katie. Oh, my Katie.” 76:51
Seen
fedora hat, brick wall, metal shelving, window with blinds, stairs, dark suit, light shirt and vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: crime, capture, reward, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and wide shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera with occasional cuts to action

A man in a hat and vest is seen in a dimly lit room with brick walls and metal shelving; other men are present, some standing, one seated, and one moving up stairs. Dialogue references 'Pete the Pusher', 'Max the Umbrella', and a reward of five grand, suggesting a capture or arrest scenario.

“Well, Rappaport, look around upstairs.” 75:56 · “Who are they? Well, a nice assortment.” 76:04 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 1:15:51 (passage 1:15:45–1:16:58); US record: No renewal found

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