Forest

5:55–5:58 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

5:57

Play from 5:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 35–35. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1

People

dark long coat, possibly hooded, indistinct features due to low light and distance visible

Seen happening

A person walks through snow in a wooded area. [frame:1]

Seen

tree branches [frame:1], snow [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, isolated; themes: solitude, winter, journey; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static framing, natural setting

A person in dark clothing walks through a snowy, wooded area at night. The scene is dimly lit, with tree branches visible in the foreground.

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 5:57 (passage 5:55–5:58); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/hearts_in_bondage/b17.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/hearts_in_bondage/b17"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/hearts_in_bondage/0035.webp" alt="Frame from Hearts in Bondage (1936) at 5:57 (passage 5:55–5:58); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Hearts in Bondage (1936), 5:55–5:58. Internet Archive copy hearts_in_bondage; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Hearts in Bondage (1936), 5:55–5:58", https://publicreel.org/moment/hearts_in_bondage/b17, from Internet Archive item hearts_in_bondage, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Forest

Evidence and details

The record

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