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Behave Yourself · Beat 5 · permalink

Bar

4:13–4:59 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 4:234:23Frame at 4:434:43Frame at 4:564:56

Play from 4:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 4–6. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark fedora and overcoat, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, behind bar counter, holding telephone receiver, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man in dark coat and hat, seen in doorway reflection, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora holds a telephone receiver to his ear while standing at a bar. [frame:1]
  • The same man continues speaking on the phone, looking serious. [frame:2]
  • The man turns away from the bar and walks toward a doorway, holding something small in his hands. [frame:3]
Also said
“It says the dog is trained to lead us to them.” 4:39 · “You mean a dog, a four-legged animal?” 4:45
Seen
telephone receiver, bar counter, bottles on shelves, fedora hat, overcoat, doorway, small object in hands
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: mystery, communication, unexpected revelation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1950s noir

Two men are in a bar; one is on the phone while the other listens. The transcript reveals they are discussing a claimed baggage item — a dog — and a note that says the dog is trained to lead them to someone. A third man is briefly visible in a doorway.

“A baggage checkered.” 4:27 · “Well, what was it? A dog.” 4:30 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 4:23 (passage 4:13–4:59); US record: No renewal found

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