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Behave Yourself · Beat 45 · permalink

Kitchen

23:02–23:30 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:1023:10Frame at 23:2423:24

Play from 23:02 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 36 · shots 59–60. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a white shirt and dark tie, standing at a counter visible
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a dark blouse and plaid skirt, standing behind counter visible
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a light blouse, kneeling on floor near dog visible
Seen happening
  • Three people are gathered in a kitchen around a small dog on the floor. [frame:1]
  • The three people lean in closer, looking at the dog and each other while talking. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, his nose does seem a little hot. He's hot all over.” 23:07 · “I'd better take him to a vet for distemper shots or whatever kind of shots you ought to have.” 23:07
Seen
small dog [frame:1], kitchen counter [frame:1], cabinets [frame:1], plaid skirt [frame:1], white shirt and tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: concerned and conversational; themes: pet care, domestic responsibility, group decision-making; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1950s studio production

Three people in a kitchen discuss a small dog’s health, with one person deciding to take it to a vet. The conversation includes concern about raw bacon making the dog vicious and uncertainty about its condition.

“You ought to know better than to give a little dog raw bacon.” 23:07 · “Exactly what I said. It'll make him vicious.” 23:07 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 23:10 (passage 23:02–23:30); US record: No renewal found

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