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Behave Yourself · Beat 68 · permalink

Living room

39:24–41:03 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 40:1440:14

Play from 39:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 109–109. 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 dark suit and striped tie, mid-adult, average build visible
  • woman with light-colored hair, seated, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a staircase while a woman sits behind him. [frame:1]
Also said
“Bill! Bill! Don't talk to anybody!” 40:23 · “Yeah. I think we matched the description pretty accurately.” 40:59
Seen
dog, staircase, suit and tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: domestic tension, miscommunication, family dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, high contrast lighting

A man in a suit stands near a staircase while a woman sits behind him; a dog is visible in the foreground. Dialogue references a mother leaving for a modern art lecture, Archie needing a walk, and someone named Bill being told not to talk to anyone.

“Um, by the way, Mother's leaving. Three chairs?” 39:46 · “Archie needs a walk.” 40:10 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 40:14 (passage 39:24–41:03); US record: No renewal found

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