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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 105 · permalink

Ship

40:48–41:19 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 40:5540:55Frame at 41:1141:11

Play from 40:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 293–294. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in naval officer uniform, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man in naval officer uniform, mid-adult, medium build, saluting visible
  • man in naval uniform, partially visible, wearing cap visible
Seen happening
  • An officer salutes another officer. [frame:1]
Also said
“Stand by!” 40:58
Seen
naval uniforms [frame:1], ship named CUMBERLAND [frame:2]
On screen
CUMBERLAND
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and formal; themes: military command, naval warfare, duty; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period naval uniforms, title card with ship name

A naval officer gives orders to prepare for battle while another salutes; the ship's name 'CUMBERLAND' is shown on screen. The transcript includes commands to get underway and sound general quarters.

“Lieutenant, get underway immediately. We'll first attack the company. Aye, aye, sir.” 40:51 · “Sound general quarters.” 40:55 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 40:55 (passage 40:48–41:19); US record: No renewal found

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