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Behave Yourself · Beat 41 · permalink

Private office

20:25–21:02 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:2720:27Frame at 20:4520:45

Play from 20:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 34 · shots 54–55. 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 suit and tie, middle-aged, seated visible, audible
  • man in patterned shirt, standing, grabbing another man visible
  • man being grabbed by collar, seated, wearing dark shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit holds a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:1]
  • A man in a patterned shirt grabs another man by the collar. [frame:2]
Also said
“Well, you know how mother-in-laws are. Yeah. When will you bring... Stop hearing him.” 20:34 · “We've got the dog.” 20:42
Seen
telephone receiver, blinds on window, wall-mounted lamp with three shades, collar of shirt being grabbed
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: domestic tension, miscommunication, physical confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a suit talks on the phone in a room with blinds; another scene shows a man in a patterned shirt grabbing another man by the collar. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about a mother-in-law and a dog.

“Oh, I couldn't tell her that it wasn't because her mother was...” 20:28 · “My mother-in-law...” 20:32 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 20:27 (passage 20:25–21:02); US record: No renewal found

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