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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 164 · permalink

Ship

48:08–48:35 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:1148:11Frame at 48:1648:16Frame at 48:2148:21Frame at 48:3348:33

Play from 48:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 399–404. 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 military uniform with cap, visible from frame:1 to frame:3 visible
  • man in military uniform with epaulets and cap, visible in frame:2 and frame:3 visible
  • man in uniform, partially visible in frame:4, handling equipment visible
Seen happening
  • Men in uniform stand on deck near a cannon. [frame:1]
  • Two men in uniform face each other closely. [frame:2]
  • A man in uniform gestures while speaking. [frame:3]
  • A man handles equipment, possibly weapons or rigging. [frame:4]
Also said
“We're going away alongside the monitor.” 48:25 · “Who volunteer? Help me take her.” 48:25
Seen
cannon, military uniforms, equipment (possibly weapons or rigging)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: military action, naval warfare, volunteerism under risk; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period military costume, grainy film texture

Men in military uniforms are seen on a ship, preparing to board another vessel. Dialogue indicates a plan to approach a monitor and possibly capture it, with volunteers called for the action.

“We'll go around on the same bar and be at their mercy.” 48:10 · “Pull alongside the monitor.” 48:10 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 48:11 (passage 48:08–48:35); US record: No renewal found

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