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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 167 · permalink

Ship

48:40–48:46 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:4048:40Frame at 48:4248:42Frame at 48:4448:44

Play from 48:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 94 · shots 407–409. 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
  • sailor in uniform, wearing cap, standing near cannon visible
  • sailor in light shirt and cap, handling rope or equipment visible
  • sailor in dark uniform, partially visible behind cannon visible
  • sailor in light shirt and cap, standing near railing visible
Seen happening
  • Crew members are preparing for a boarding action. [frame:1]
  • Sailors are handling ropes and weapons on deck. [frame:2]
  • Sailors are positioned near a cannon, appearing ready for combat. [frame:3]
Seen
cannon, rope, ship deck, smoke
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: naval warfare, crew readiness, imminent conflict; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium shots emphasizing action and equipment

A naval vessel is under threat as crew members prepare for boarding. Smoke rises from the ship, and sailors are seen handling equipment and weapons on deck.

“They're aiming to board us.” 48:40 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 48:40 (passage 48:40–48:46); US record: No renewal found

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