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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 103 · permalink

Ship

40:12–40:26 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:1940:19

Play from 40:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 288–288. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in naval uniform, standing at left, holding a sword visible
  • Commodore Buchanan (named at t:40:19): man in naval uniform, standing center, facing group visible
  • group of men in naval uniforms, standing in background visible
Seen
naval uniforms [frame:1], sword [frame:1], ship deck with ropes and railings [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, authoritative; themes: military hierarchy, command, naval tradition; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, staged composition typical of 1930s studio films

A group of men in naval uniforms stands on a ship's deck as one man addresses them. The transcript indicates a commodore is about to speak.

“Gentlemen.” 40:18 · “Commodore Buchanan will address you.” 40:19 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 Hearts in Bondage (1936) at 40:19 (passage 40:12–40:26); US record: No renewal found

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