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Behave Yourself · Beat 92 · permalink

Police station

1:00:34–1:01:41 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:421:00:42Frame at 1:01:151:01:15

Play from 1:00:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 147–148. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a fedora, dark coat, and striped tie, bending over visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing with back to camera visible
  • man seated at table, balding, wearing suit visible
  • man in uniform or cap, standing near table visible
  • man in light shirt, standing behind table visible
  • unseen speaker, agitated, mentions wife and dog audible
  • unseen speaker, says 'Fine, mother.' audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat bends near a doorway. [frame:1]
  • Several men gather around a table where a dog stands. [frame:2]
Also said
“Fine, mother. What are you doing? Come on. Let's go.” 60:58 · “Just plain dog. All we could find was a couple of fleas. Get that mud out of here. Here, he's yours. He's not mine. I don't want him. I don't want him either, see? Your wife wants him. He's her anniversary present. You! Stop it! For all you, my wife's playing in some holy. With a knife in her back and a bullet in her head. Take him, please. Get him out. Oh, baby. Stop it. You all right, honey?” 61:12
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], striped tie [frame:1], dog [frame:2], table [frame:2], fleas (mentioned) [t:61:12], mud (mentioned) [t:61:12], knife (mentioned) [t:61:12], bullet (mentioned) [t:61:12]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: absurdity of bureaucracy, marital conflict, misplaced priorities; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, group composition around a central prop (dog)

A man in a hat and coat is seen bending near a doorway, then a group of men gather around a table where a dog stands. Dialogue reveals a wife is missing and a dog is being questioned or handed over as an anniversary present.

“Katie?” 60:38 · “They've got her, too. Now, where is she? Where is she? What have you done with her? No, what about my wife? My wife. Why my wife? Come on, come on. I don't know. Ryan wants to question this dog. I mean, we're taking him in, see?” 60:42 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 1:00:42 (passage 1:00:34–1:01:41); US record: No renewal found

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