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Behave Yourself · Beat 46 · permalink

Private office

23:30–24:13 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:3423:34Frame at 23:3823:38Frame at 23:5623:56

Play from 23:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 61–63. 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 light shirt and dark tie, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman with curly blonde hair, light-colored blouse visible, audible
  • man with bald head, wearing vest over light shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman face each other in an indoor setting, appearing to argue. [frame:1]
  • A small, scruffy dog with a collar is shown in close-up. [frame:2]
  • A man wipes the number 1655 on a building plaque with a cloth. [frame:3]
Also said
“Yeah, but don't you think I'd better walk him around the block, maybe? And now? Never mind. I'll take him out when I go shopping. I don't mind at all. I'll take him.” 23:42 · “Who are you looking for, mister? Mr. Jones. Seats for 21A. Thank you.” 23:53
Seen
dog, building plaque, cloth
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and domestic; themes: domestic responsibility, pet ownership, social interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast lighting

A man and a woman argue about responsibility for a dog while a man cleans a building number. The dog is shown in a close-up, and a man is seen wiping the number 1655 off a building plaque.

“Stay off my side.” 23:32 · “Phil! He's my gift to you. It is my responsibility. No, he's my responsibility. Besides, Archie and I ought to start getting acquainted.” 23:34 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 23:34 (passage 23:30–24:13); US record: No renewal found

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