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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 104 · permalink

Ship

40:26–40:48 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:3040:30Frame at 40:3840:38Frame at 40:4540:45Frame at 40:4740:47

Play from 40:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 289–292. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • older man, mustache, wearing a dark military uniform with epaulets and a cap visible, audible
  • younger man, clean-shaven, wearing a dark military uniform with a cap visible
  • man with beard, wearing a light-colored shirt and a hat visible
  • man with dark hair and beard, wearing a light shirt visible
  • group of sailors in various uniforms and civilian shirts, some raising arms visible
Seen happening
  • The crew cheers and raises their arms in response to the speech. [frame:4]
Also said
“Our homes, our wives, our children...” 40:41 · “That is all. Hooray!” 40:45
Seen
military uniforms [frame:1], ship interior with wooden beams and metal structures [frame:4], sailors' hats and caps [frame:2], checkered floor [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and rousing; themes: military duty, patriotism, sacrifice for family; style notes: static medium shots and close-ups with high-contrast lighting; formal military attire and ship interior suggest a period drama

A military officer gives a speech to a group of sailors aboard a ship, urging them to fight for their homes and families. The crew responds with cheers after the speech concludes.

“Our mission is to clear this harbor of enemy craft.” 40:26 · “What you do today will be the history of tomorrow.” 40:37 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 40:30 (passage 40:26–40:48); US record: No renewal found

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