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Behave Yourself · Beat 81 · permalink

Private office

54:40–56:26 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:3355:33

Play from 54:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 56 · shots 129–129. 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
  • man in dark suit and tie, holding newspaper, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and tie, facing p1, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • man in hat and suit, visible over p1's shoulder, mid-adult visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a newspaper and speaks to another man while others stand nearby. [frame:1]
Also said
“About a dog. I told you. Just like I went to Jonas' apartment. The ad in the paper, then the other one. This one. Don't give me that daffy daffy poll again. All you have to do is read it. If you can read.” 55:05 · “Siemens Hotel, huh? What's a flea bag like a Siemens Hotel got to do with the Drextel towers? Oh, I” 55:32
Seen
newspaper [frame:1], suit [frame:1], tie [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: murder investigation, newspaper clue, urban setting; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

A man in a suit holds a newspaper while speaking to another man in a suit; others stand nearby. The transcript discusses a murder, a dog, and locations including Drexel Towers and Siemens Hotel.

“The first one was Gilly the Blade, the same one we just found dead.” 54:40 · “What did you want to see him about?” 55:03 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 55:33 (passage 54:40–56:26); US record: No renewal found

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