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Behave Yourself · Beat 57 · permalink

Private office

27:46–29:04 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:1428:14Frame at 28:4328:43Frame at 28:5528:55

Play from 27:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 84–86. 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 bathtub, partially submerged in ice, wearing no shirt visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing in doorway visible
  • man in dark suit, back to camera, standing near doorway visible
  • man in dark suit, seen from behind, walking away visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand in a doorway of an office-like room with checkered floor. [frame:1]
  • A man is lying in a bathtub filled with ice. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit walks away down a hallway. [frame:3]
Also said
“You killed him? Yes.” 28:51 · “Now what? Jonas is the only one we knew. He would have led us to the others.” 28:59
Seen
bathtub [frame:2], ice [frame:2], checkered floor [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], suit [frame:1, frame:3], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: crime, conspiracy, betrayal; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, static camera

A man is seen in a bathtub filled with ice, while other characters discuss a search and a killing. The dialogue references names like Russell, Giddy, Jonas, and Gilly, and mentions a location at 1655 North Citrus Road.

“You got it, Russell?” 27:46 · “He wasn't there.” 28:40 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 28:14 (passage 27:46–29:04); US record: No renewal found

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