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Behave Yourself · Beat 48 · permalink

Private office

24:45–25:17 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 24:5024:50Frame at 25:0625:06

Play from 24:45 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 38 · shots 68–69. 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 wearing a cap and smoking a cigar, medium build, visible in close-up visible, audible
  • man in striped shirt, leaning over desk, holding telephone receiver visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cap is visible holding a cigar in his mouth. [frame:1]
  • A man in a striped shirt leans over a desk, holding a telephone receiver. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, oh, Thomas. Sorry, wrong number.” 25:03
Seen
cigar, telephone receiver, desk, cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: negotiation, miscommunication, authority; style notes: close-up framing on speaker, high-contrast lighting, static camera on desk scene

A man in a cap smokes a cigar while speaking on the phone; another man in a striped shirt leans over a desk, holding a telephone receiver. The dialogue suggests a negotiation involving a reward and a dog, ending with an apology for a wrong number.

“I'm sorry.” 24:46 · “Double the reward, triple it. When he delivers the dog, kick him downstairs.” 24:57 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 24:50 (passage 24:45–25:17); US record: No renewal found

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