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Behave Yourself · Beat 82 · permalink

Private office

56:26–57:43 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:4456:44Frame at 57:1157:11Frame at 57:2857:28Frame at 57:3957:39

Play from 56:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 130–133. 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:2
People
  • man in suit and fedora, seated, light complexion, mid-30s, medium build visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing, light complexion, mid-40s, heavier build visible
  • man in suit and fedora, seated, light complexion, late 30s, thin build visible
  • Mr. Looney (named at t:56:35): man in suit and fedora, standing, light complexion, 50s, balding, heavier build visible
  • man in police uniform, standing, light complexion, 40s, medium build visible
  • man in suit, seated, light complexion, 40s, thin build, shirt unbuttoned at collar visible, audible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing, light complexion, 50s, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora sits and gestures while speaking. [frame:1]
  • Several men in suits and hats stand around a seated man in a room. [frame:2]
  • A police officer stands among men in suits in a room. [frame:3]
  • A man is struck in the face by another man. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm old Denny. I mean Denny. You. Who's this Noomi? What do you know about him? Nothing, honest. He checked in three or four days ago off a tramp ship. Anybody visit him? Yeah. Who?” 57:28 · “Hit him!” 57:42
Seen
fedora hat, suit, chair, police uniform, tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: interrogation, mystery, violence; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and group shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A group of men in suits and hats are gathered in a room; one man is questioned while others observe. A police officer appears in one frame, and a man is struck in the final frame.

“That's Mr. Looney.” 56:35 · “and a dog followed me home. My wife thought I'd bought an anniversary present. I didn't tell her the truth, figuring I'd return the dog, tell her it ran away, buy her another one.” 56:42 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 56:44 (passage 56:26–57:43); US record: No renewal found

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