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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 111 · permalink

Sea

42:14–42:17 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:1642:16

Play from 42:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 312–312. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sea (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • A sailing ship is on fire or emitting smoke while floating on water. [frame:1]
Seen
sailing ship, smoke, water
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: naval conflict, destruction at sea; style notes: static wide shot, high contrast black and white, dramatic lighting emphasizing smoke and ship silhouette

A sailing ship is shown on water with smoke rising from it, suggesting damage or battle. No people are visible and no dialogue is present in this beat.

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 42:16 (passage 42:14–42:17); US record: No renewal found

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