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Behave Yourself · Beat 55 · permalink

Police station

26:56–27:28 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:5726:57Frame at 27:1327:13

Play from 26:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 40 · shots 81–82. 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
  • Russell (named at t:26:56): man in police uniform, wearing cap, holding phone to ear visible, audible
  • man in dark coat and hat, seen from behind, standing at a desk visible
Seen happening
  • A police officer is holding a phone to his ear. [frame:1]
  • A man in a coat and hat stands at a desk in a room with a lamp and framed picture. [frame:2]
Also said
“sit next to me. Right where you are.” 27:16 · “cops.” 27:20
Seen
telephone, police cap, desk, lamp, framed picture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, urgency, confinement; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up on officer, wider shot of room; studio lighting, no natural light cues

A police officer is on the phone while another person is seen in a room with furniture and a lamp. The transcript includes urgent instructions to stay put and mentions police presence.

“Hey, Russell, trace this call.” 26:56 · “Don't go away. Stay right where you are.” 27:01 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 26:57 (passage 26:56–27:28); US record: No renewal found

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