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Behave Yourself · Beat 40 · permalink

Private office

20:03–20:25 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:0920:09Frame at 20:1920:19

Play from 20:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 52–53. 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
  • middle-aged man, wearing suit and tie, seated at desk visible, audible
  • younger man, wearing shirt and striped tie, standing near brick wall visible, audible
Also said
“Oh, my poor baby's crying your eyes out.” 20:16 · “Well, this may sound crazy to you, but my wife thinks it's an anniversary present.” 20:23
Seen
telephone, desk, brick wall, window blinds
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic tension; themes: miscommunication, domestic misunderstanding, absurdity of gift-giving; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, static framing

Two men are on separate phone calls in different rooms; one mentions a dog following him home and his wife mistaking it for an anniversary present. The setting appears to be interior spaces with brick and windowed walls.

“Yeah?” 20:05 · “Oh, hold it. I can't hear. I can't hear.” 20:11 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 20:09 (passage 20:03–20:25); US record: No renewal found

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