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Behave Yourself · Beat 58 · permalink

Private office

29:04–29:22 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:0929:09Frame at 29:1729:17

Play from 29:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 42 · shots 87–88. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • heavyset man, shirtless, in bathtub visible
  • Gilly (named at t:29:08): man in suit, holding a bunch of grapes visible
Seen happening
  • A man is sitting in a bathtub filled with suds. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands in a room holding grapes. [frame:2]
Also said
“Well, I got in and waited for Jonas to make a move that'd show me where the stuff was.” 29:13 · “But he went for a gun, and I ought to let him have it. Then in comes his screwball. And he goes on about some dog the stiff must have lost that he found.” 29:18
Seen
bathtub, suds, suit, grapes, curtains, large windows
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: crime, confrontation, mystery; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static framing

A man is seen in a bathtub filled with suds while another man in a suit stands in a room with large windows. The transcript includes dialogue about waiting for someone named Jonas and a mention of a dog.

“Tell me, Gilly.” 29:08 · “Tell me everything just as it happened.” 29:10 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 29:09 (passage 29:04–29:22); US record: No renewal found

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