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Behave Yourself · Beat 8 · permalink

Bar

6:00–7:29 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:216:21Frame at 7:057:05

Play from 6:00 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 6 · shots 12–13. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing a suit, tie, and fedora hat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man is talking on a telephone. [frame:1]
  • The man continues his phone conversation, showing a change in expression. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm wearing it.” 6:42 · “Bill, I got a bottle of champagne on ice.” 7:00
Seen
telephone, fedora hat, suit and tie, bar shelves with bottles
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted domestic tension; themes: marriage, anniversary, gift-giving, miscommunication; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, black-and-white, 1950s film style

A man in a suit and hat is on the phone in what appears to be a bar or shop, discussing a wedding anniversary and a gift. The conversation includes references to a Cadillac, a low neckline, and champagne, suggesting a domestic exchange.

“Would I forget my own wedding anniversary?” 6:23 · “Is it a Cadillac?” 6:29 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 6:21 (passage 6:00–7:29); US record: No renewal found

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