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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 13 · permalink

Workshop

4:02–4:25 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; 2 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 4:134:13

Play from 4:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 22–22. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
workshop (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark military-style uniform with buttons and epaulets, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • older man with white hair, wearing vest over shirt, holding tool or pointer visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand at a table examining a metal model of a ship. [frame:1]
Also said
“Here.” 4:13 · “Look. A plant of my new ironclad. Simple.” 4:20
Seen
metal ship model [frame:1], workbench or table [frame:1], tool or pointer held by p2 [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but focused; themes: naval innovation, military bureaucracy, design presentation; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men are in a workshop-like interior; one in uniform holds a metal model while the other, in vest and shirt, gestures toward it. A line mentions 'ironclad' and 'Washington,' suggesting a naval design discussion.

“Wooden ships. Bah, you talk like one of those empty office admirals in Washington.” 4:07 · “Heh heh.” 4:12 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 4:13 (passage 4:02–4:25); US record: No renewal found

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