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Behave Yourself · Beat 96 · permalink

Living room

1:04:17–1:04:41 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:04:201:04:20Frame at 1:04:241:04:24Frame at 1:04:301:04:30Frame at 1:04:391:04:39

Play from 1:04:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 155–158. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a suit and striped tie visible, audible
  • woman, curly blonde hair, wearing a dark top with white collar visible, audible
  • woman, blonde hair, wearing glasses and a patterned dress with pearl necklace visible
Seen happening
  • The man holds up a bill and speaks to the woman. [frame:1]
  • The woman reacts with surprise to what the man says. [frame:2]
  • The man, woman, and a third woman examine bills together at a table. [frame:3]
  • The man holds a bill and speaks urgently to the woman. [frame:4]
Also said
“Now look carefully.” 64:40
Seen
money bills [frame:3], briefcase [frame:3], glasses [frame:3], pearl necklace [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: deception, conflict over money, examination of truth; style notes: close-up shots emphasize facial expressions; black-and-white lighting creates high contrast; mid-shot includes props to establish context

A man and a woman argue over a stack of money, which the man claims is counterfeit. A third woman joins them, and they examine the bills together while the man points out flaws in the currency.

“Even if it was yours, you couldn't spend it. Not this money. It is mine, and why can't I...” 64:20 · “Because it's counterfeit. What? Counterfeit. Phony. Oh, baby, these are as phony as mother's false teeth. I mean, anybody's mother's false teeth. Look. Look at that smudge on Lincoln's beard. Look at that 20. Notice anything odd about Andrew Jackson?” 64:24 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 1:04:20 (passage 1:04:17–1:04:41); US record: No renewal found

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