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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 138 · permalink

Ship

45:34–45:49 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:3545:35Frame at 45:4245:42Frame at 45:4845:48

Play from 45:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 358–360. 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 naval officer's uniform with cap visible
  • man in sailor's cap and light shirt visible
  • man in dark uniform with cap visible
  • man in light shirt and head wrap visible
  • unspecified, speaking voice audible
Seen happening
  • A large multi-masted warship is visible on water. [frame:1]
  • Several sailors are seen looking out from a porthole in a ship's hull. [frame:2]
  • Two sailors, one in uniform and one in light shirt, look out from a porthole. [frame:3]
Seen
multi-masted warship [frame:1], ship's porthole [frame:2], naval officer's cap [frame:3], sailor's cap [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and slightly bemused; themes: naval life, first impressions of technology; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black and white, tight framing on faces in porthole

A large sailing warship is shown on water, followed by close-ups of sailors looking out from a ship's porthole. One sailor speaks, comparing the vessel to a cheese box on a rack.

“What tarnation is it? I don't know, but...” 45:36 · “It looks to me like a cheese box on a rack. So that's the monitor.” 45:40 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 45:35 (passage 45:34–45:49); US record: No renewal found

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