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Behave Yourself · Beat 59 · permalink

Living room

29:22–30:23 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:2829:28Frame at 29:5429:54Frame at 30:0930:09Frame at 30:1830:18

Play from 29:22 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 89–95. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in a tweed suit and tie, thin build, dark hair, standing or moving visible, audible
  • heavyset man, partially submerged in foam, in a bathtub visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands near a window, looking out. [frame:1]
  • The man in the suit is shown in a close-up, holding something small in his hands. [frame:2]
  • A heavyset man is seen lying in a bathtub filled with foam. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit lifts a sheet while the heavyset man remains in the tub. [frame:4]
Also said
“The colonel's dog...” 30:04 · “I should have thought. You never do, Gilly. You never do.” 30:12
Seen
tweed suit [frame:1], bathtub [frame:3], foam [frame:3], sheet [frame:4], window with curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: crime, deception, memory, animal as plot device; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, cluttered set design

A man in a suit stands near a window and later lifts a sheet while another man lies in a bathtub filled with foam; dialogue references a dog, a character named Jonas, and a past event in London. No names are visually confirmed, and the setting appears to be a cluttered room with a window view.

“I'm just some dog that Jonas must have lost and advertised for.” 29:36 · “I just only knocked off Jonas.” 29:54 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 29:28 (passage 29:22–30:23); US record: No renewal found

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