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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 130 · permalink

Ship

44:37–45:06 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:4244:42Frame at 44:5244:52Frame at 44:5444:54Frame at 45:0245:02

Play from 44:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 344–349. 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, frame:3
People
  • crew member in dark uniform with white trim, visible from back or side visible
  • crew member in dark uniform with cap, facing p1 visible
Seen happening
  • Crew members are visible on a ship's deck near a cannon. [frame:1]
  • A ship's hull with rigging and a nameplate is shown. [frame:2]
  • Two crew members in uniform are seen interacting on deck. [frame:4]
Seen
cannon, American flag, ship's hull with nameplate, rigging and ropes
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: naval duty, military discipline; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting on deck, period naval uniforms

The scene shows a ship's deck with crew members in uniform, a cannon, and an American flag. A command to 'Down, General Quarters' is spoken, indicating a naval alert or drill.

“Down, General Quarters.” 44:46 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 44:42 (passage 44:37–45:06); US record: No renewal found

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