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Behave Yourself · Beat 66 · permalink

Police station

36:54–37:56 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: name not grounded. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 36:5536:55Frame at 37:2137:21Frame at 37:5137:51

Play from 36:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 105–107. 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
  • older man, wearing suit and tie, holding newspaper visible
  • younger man, wearing dark suit and tie, standing facing p1 visible
  • man in hat and coat, partially visible in background visible
  • man seen from behind, wearing suit, walking toward window visible
  • Morbert Gilliespie (named at frame:1): man in mugshot, wearing suit and tie, labeled 'MORBERT GILLIESPIE' visible
Seen happening
  • A police department wanted poster for Morbert Gilliespie is shown. [frame:1]
  • Two men in suits argue while one holds a newspaper. [frame:2]
  • A man walks toward a window, seen from behind. [frame:3]
Also said
“Here it is. Welsh Terrier. Exactly like the dog I found. Just because some fellow got murdered, there's no excuse... We don't want him. Show the citizen out. My child cried all night. Find her, please return. Reward, Drexel Tower. Drexel Towers? Say, this isn't the same address. Peter. Don't claim the reward. Hey, now.” 37:29
Seen
wanted poster [frame:1], newspaper [frame:2], window [frame:3]
On screen
POLICE DEPARTMENT ALIAS of MAND
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and bureaucratic; themes: bureaucratic indifference, citizen versus authority, miscommunication; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static camera

A man presents a newspaper clipping about a wanted criminal to police officers in a station; another man is seen from behind walking toward a window. The officers dismiss the citizen's report about a found dog.

“Last heard from him, he was in the can in Parrish. The feds want him and I want him. Now get out and bring him in. You too, old Rappaport.” 36:59 · “What's the matter with you two? Why can't you listen? What is this, another irate taxpayer? This is the one who left his card on Jonas. All right, come on, beat it. Get the lead out. Go on, will you? You in charge here? At your service. Well, what kind of a department do you run anyway? I tried to explain to these two Cossacks, I found a dog. Let me show you.” 37:08 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 36:55 (passage 36:54–37:56); US record: No renewal found

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