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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 180 · permalink

Garden

49:59–50:37 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; 2 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 50:0350:03Frame at 50:1150:11Frame at 50:2650:26Frame at 50:3350:33

Play from 49:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 104 · shots 425–429. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in formal black suit with white bow tie and ruffled shirt visible
  • woman in dark formal dress and hat, holding a small bouquet visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand side by side in a garden near water. [frame:1]
  • The woman turns her head to look at the man while speaking. [frame:2]
  • The man looks forward while the woman looks at him, both standing still. [frame:3]
  • The couple walks slowly forward together, passing a bench. [frame:4]
Also said
“I should hate you, but I can't. There's no hate left in me.” 50:27 · “No feeling, nothing.” 50:31
Seen
formal black suit [frame:1], dark formal dress and hat [frame:1], flowering bushes [frame:1], body of water [frame:1], bench [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and resigned; themes: grief, duty, unresolved love, emotional numbness; style notes: static medium shots, formal costume, natural outdoor setting with soft lighting

A man and a woman in formal black attire stand together outdoors near a body of water and flowering bushes. The woman speaks about loss and enduring love, referencing someone named Raymond who died gallantly, while expressing an inability to hate the man.

“What is there to say? Raymond died gallantly. You were only doing your duty. There's nothing else. Except to keep on loving you. Long ago I said that all the wars in all the world...” 50:06 · “It couldn't stop me from doing that.” 50:24 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 50:03 (passage 49:59–50:37); US record: No renewal found

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