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Behave Yourself · Beat 70 · permalink

Private office

41:26–44:44 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; 6 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 43:0543:05

Play from 41:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 111–111. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Jonas (named at t:44:42): man in suit and hat, medium build, standing upright visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and trousers, standing with hands in pockets visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • Gilly (named at t:41:32): unseen speaker audible
  • Dougie (named at t:41:46): unseen speaker audible
  • Charles (named at t:41:58): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit and hat enters an office and announces he is responding to an advertisement for a lost dog. [frame:1]
Also said
“It's about your advertisement.” 44:30 · “Why, it's Mr. Jonas.” 44:42
Seen
metal filing cabinets [frame:1], checkered floor [frame:1], suit and hat [frame:1], light shirt and trousers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: uninvited intrusion, miscommunication, bureaucratic setting; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, static framing, mid-century office decor

A man enters an office uninvited, claiming to respond to an advertisement for a lost dog, and is recognized by someone inside. The scene includes dialogue assigning roles and locations, including a reference to Harbor Drive and the White House.

“You remain here, Gilly, in case your screwball friend answers our ad.” 41:32 · “So I came in.” 44:25 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 43:05 (passage 41:26–44:44); US record: No renewal found

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