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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 129 · permalink

Ship

44:07–44:37 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:1244:12Frame at 44:2744:27

Play from 44:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 342–343. 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 dark naval uniform with epaulets and cap, standing at attention visible
  • man in lighter uniform with cap, facing p1 visible
  • man in dark uniform, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • man in light uniform, back to camera, walking in frame:1 visible
  • man in dark uniform, visible in background of frame:1 visible
  • man in dark uniform, visible in background of frame:2 visible
Seen happening
  • A naval officer addresses a group on deck. [frame:1]
  • Officers stand in formation, one giving orders. [frame:2]
Also said
“By nightfall, I'm confident that there will not be a Union vessel left in Hampton Roads. Hooray!” 44:25 · “We'll first attack the Minnesota. Aye, aye, sir.” 44:32
Seen
naval uniforms [frame:1], ship deck [frame:1], military caps [frame:2], epaulets [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and authoritative; themes: military command, wartime strategy, hierarchical discipline; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal military framing

A naval officer announces command transfer and orders an attack on Union vessels at Hampton Roads. The scene shows uniformed men on a ship's deck, with one officer giving orders and others responding.

“Gentlemen, you'll be pleased to hear the Commodore Buchanan is doing very nicely.” 44:14 · “Lieutenant Jones assumes command.” 44:21 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 44:12 (passage 44:07–44:37); US record: No renewal found

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