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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 123 · permalink

Ship

42:56–43:19 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:5942:59Frame at 43:0443:04Frame at 43:1243:12Frame at 43:1843:18

Play from 42:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 324–331. 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
  • unseen, voice only audible
Seen happening
  • A ship is shown under attack with smoke rising from it. [frame:1]
  • A large warship is shown firing or being hit, with smoke and water spray. [frame:2]
  • A close-up of a ship's mast and rigging is shown. [frame:3]
  • A ship is sinking in the water with smoke rising from it. [frame:4]
Seen
ship [frame:1], smoke [frame:1], water [frame:1], mast [frame:3], rigging [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: naval warfare, destruction, imminent danger; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of ships at sea, dramatic lighting from smoke and explosions

A naval battle scene shows ships under fire with smoke rising; one vessel is sinking. A voice says 'I'm going out.'

“I'm going out.” 42:58 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 42:59 (passage 42:56–43:19); US record: No renewal found

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