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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 173 · permalink

Ship

49:06–49:14 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:0949:09Frame at 49:1349:13

Play from 49:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 99 · shots 416–417. 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
  • person seen from behind, wearing a hat, looking through a circular opening visible
  • Jackie (named at t:49:10): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A person looks through a circular opening at a distant island with smoke. [frame:1]
  • Smoke rises from an island with a structure visible on it. [frame:2]
Seen
circular opening, island with structure, smoke
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: danger, warning, observation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot through circular frame, wide shot of distant island, high contrast lighting

A person looks through a circular opening at a distant island with smoke rising, while a voice warns someone named Jackie to turn back. The scene is set on water with a structure visible on the island.

“She sees fire.” 49:08 · “Jackie, turn back!” 49:10 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 49:09 (passage 49:06–49:14); US record: No renewal found

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