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Behave Yourself · Beat 90 · permalink

Private office

59:50–1:00:20 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:5359:53Frame at 1:00:061:00:06Frame at 1:00:191:00:19

Play from 59:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 143–145. 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 wearing fedora and glasses, medium build, wearing dark jacket visible, audible
  • Bates (named at t:60:00): man in light shirt, no hat, medium build, visible from side and back visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man holds up what appear to be bones wrapped in cloth. [frame:1]
  • A man in a fedora is grabbed by the collar by another man. [frame:2]
  • A dog stands at a door, looking out. [frame:3]
Also said
“Alice... And that's the stuff she had on her. I drank it right here.” 60:05 · “Elamore! Elamore!” 60:14
Seen
bones wrapped in cloth [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:2], dog [frame:3], door with brick wall [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: confrontation, mystery, accusation; style notes: tight framing on characters, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock

A man in a fedora is grabbed by the collar indoors while another man holds up what appears to be bones; a dog is later seen at a door. Dialogue includes references to 'Bones', 'Bates', and 'Elamore'.

“What's this? Bones?” 59:54 · “in a pool. Come on, start talking and talk fast. I don't know, Bates.” 60:00 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 59:53 (passage 59:50–1:00:20); US record: No renewal found

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