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Behave Yourself · Beat 67 · permalink

Living room

37:56–39:24 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:4038:40

Play from 37:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 108–108. 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, dark suit, medium build, dark hair, standing visible, audible
  • Mother (named at t:38:16): woman, light blouse, dark skirt, short curly hair, older, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in a living room, holding hands. [frame:1]
Also said
“Five. Oh, there you are. Are you all right? Why did you phone? I've been trying to get that idiotic lawyer all evening. Oh, are you guilty? What did you do? Tell me! Hey, hold it, will you? Tell me everything. Why did you do it? Oh, darling, I'll try and understand. Take it easy. It wasn't anything I tell you, nothing at all.” 38:34 · “I meet a lot of people. Routine checkup. Man murdered, they usually ask questions. And you all are involved. Mother. Naturally. I murder somebody every day.” 39:13
Seen
dark suit, light blouse, dark skirt, potted plant, wooden paneling, shadow of person on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: family conflict, misunderstanding, legal trouble; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static camera, classic black-and-white film framing

A man and a woman argue in a dimly lit interior; the woman is agitated and accuses the man of murder, while he denies it and claims it was a routine police check. The transcript reveals the woman is his mother, and he claims to have only briefly met the murdered man.

“Will you stop it, Mother? He didn't murder anyone. Well, you know, it's closely called. They hold all murderers incommunicado. That's why. Please, Mother, please. Please.” 38:16 · “Oh, I'll brain him. I'll kill him. I'll absolutely crush every bone in his head.” 38:26 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 38:40 (passage 37:56–39:24); US record: No renewal found

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