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Behave Yourself · Beat 51 · permalink

Living room

25:31–25:58 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:3725:37Frame at 25:4525:45Frame at 25:5025:50Frame at 25:5625:56

Play from 25:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 38 · shots 72–75. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Archie (named at t:25:41): man in dark suit, tie, holding hat, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • man in fedora and overcoat, older, seated, partially visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands holding his hat and speaks. [frame:1]
  • The man in the suit sits and talks to another man in a hat. [frame:2]
Also said
“That is, she named him Archie, because, well, naturally, under the circumstances, we didn't know his real name, so... Who's?” 25:50 · “Archie's? And I mean your dog's. Oh, Archie!” 25:54
Seen
suit, fedora, sofa, lamp, painting on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly awkward; themes: miscommunication, ownership, domestic life; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, black-and-white, mid-century interior decor

A man in a suit speaks with another man in a hat inside a living room; they discuss a dog named Archie. The conversation reveals the dog is not theirs and was named by the speaker's wife.

“Not that we own this one, of course, he's yours. But she promised me I could walk in tonight.” 25:36 · “Or who? Archie. She said that I... Archie, who's he? The dog. I am sorry. She named him that. My wife.” 25:41 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 25:37 (passage 25:31–25:58); US record: No renewal found

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