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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 18 · permalink

Ice

5:58–6:29 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:106:10Frame at 6:266:26

Play from 5:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 36–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ice (other, exterior) evidence: t:6:03
People
  • woman wearing a fur hat and heavy coat, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible, audible
  • Raymond (named at t:6:03): man wearing a top hat and coat, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible, audible
Mentioned
  • The woman falls on the ice. [t:6:03]
Also said
“Well, you did it. You fell down. I'm afraid I did. Well, aren't you going to help me up? No. I'm going to sit comfortably here till Raymond comes along. On the ice? Why not? The thaw won't set in till spring. Well, then I'll...” 6:03
Seen
fur hat, top hat, heavy coat, ice
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and playful; themes: romantic banter, winter setting, social class (top hat); style notes: close-up shots, black-and-white, studio lighting, period costumes

A woman and a man are on ice; the woman has fallen and the man refuses to help her, saying he will wait for Raymond. The woman reacts with laughter and exasperation.

“Darling!” 6:00 · “Oh, ha, ha!” 6:02 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 6:10 (passage 5:58–6:29); US record: No renewal found

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