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Behave Yourself · Beat 54 · permalink

Police station

26:37–26:56 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:4026:40Frame at 26:5026:50

Play from 26:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 79–80. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Sergeant O'Neill (named at t:26:41): man in police uniform, middle-aged, heavy-set, wearing a cap with badge visible, audible
  • man in police uniform, seen from back, sitting at desk visible
  • Sam (named at t:26:49): caller, not visible audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • Sergeant O'Neill is on the phone in a police station. [frame:1]
  • Another officer remains seated at a desk in the background. [frame:2]
Also said
“All by me, Sam. Who's this?” 26:49 · “What's your name? Where do you live? Give me the address.” 26:54
Seen
telephone, police cap with badge, desk, office chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: law enforcement, crime reporting, bureaucratic procedure; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up on officer, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1950s film noir

A police officer is on the phone in an office while another officer works at a desk in the background. The transcript indicates a report of murder is being filed, with questions about the body and the caller's identity.

“Police complaint, Ford. Sergeant O'Neill.” 26:41 · “I want a report of murder. Yeah? Yes. Who did it?” 26:44 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 26:40 (passage 26:37–26:56); US record: No renewal found

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