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Behave Yourself · Beat 29 · permalink

Street

17:37–18:39 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:0818:08

Play from 17:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 40–40. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, tie, and fedora, medium build, serious expression visible, audible
  • man in pinstripe suit, patterned tie, glasses, and fedora, medium build, expressive face visible, audible
Seen happening
  • One man wakes the other, accusing him of falling asleep on watch. [frame:1]
Also said
“Think anything's gone wrong?” 18:09 · “Where's the nearest gas station? Six blocks down. Six blocks? You watch till I get back.” 18:17
Seen
fedora hats [frame:1], suits and ties [frame:1], glasses [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: duty, mistrust, urban surveillance; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men in suits and hats argue in an outdoor urban setting; one accuses the other of dozing off while on watch, and they discuss waiting for a contact and the location of a gas station six blocks away.

“For just a few seconds, I closed my eyes. You know that in what time you could get shot for a thing like that?” 17:56 · “Did I sleep in a soft bed like you all night? No. I stood here all night. Watch it.” 18:04 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 18:08 (passage 17:37–18:39); US record: No renewal found

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