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Behave Yourself · Beat 53 · permalink

Private office

26:24–26:37 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; 1 name 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 26:3126:31

Play from 26:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 78–78. 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, fedora hat, light shirt and tie, middle-aged, average build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man sits on a desk holding a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:1]
Also said
“I want a policeman.” 26:33 · “Yes, sir.” 26:35
Seen
telephone receiver, desk, lamp, fedora hat, suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, urgent; themes: authority, communication, isolation; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static camera, 1950s film noir aesthetic

A man in a suit and hat sits on a desk holding a telephone receiver. He speaks to an operator, requesting a policeman.

“Odd fellow.” 26:26 · “Operator.” 26:32 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 26:31 (passage 26:24–26:37); US record: No renewal found

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