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Behave Yourself · Beat 52 · permalink

Private office

25:58–26:24 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:0126:01Frame at 26:1426:14

Play from 25:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 38 · shots 76–77. 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 dark suit and tie, short dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in patterned suit and fedora, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The second man grabs the first man by the lapels. [frame:2]
Also said
“She stopped. Anyway, it's the wrong dog. It's the wrong dog.” 26:22 · “Screwball.” 26:22
Seen
fedora hat, door with doorknob, suit jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: misunderstanding, comedy of errors, domestic conflict; style notes: medium close-up shots, studio lighting, black-and-white, static camera

Two men in suits are shown in an indoor setting; one is speaking while the other listens, then the second man grabs the first by the lapels. The transcript includes dialogue about a dog named Archie, a child, and a mistaken identity.

“Well, I'll get Archie to you without fail tonight. Tell my wife you ran away or something and get her another dog.” 25:59 · “A great little fellow. But naturally, if he belongs to you, it's... He's yours.” 26:07 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 26:01 (passage 25:58–26:24); US record: No renewal found

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