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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 182 · permalink

Sidewalk

50:44–51:15 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 50:5150:51Frame at 51:0151:01Frame at 51:0951:09

Play from 50:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 105 · shots 431–433. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Jordan (named at t:50:44): man in formal black suit and bow tie, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in dark coat and hat, light hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Mr. Lincoln (named at t:50:47): man with beard, wearing plaid shawl over formal attire, older visible, audible
  • Kenneth Reynolds (named at t:50:54): man in formal black suit and bow tie, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
Also said
“Oh, may I? This is Kenneth Reynolds.” 50:54 · “Tomorrow, a grateful government will publicly acknowledge the wrongs done to you.” 51:03
Seen
formal suit, plaid shawl, dark coat and hat, body of water, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: political reconciliation, public acknowledgment of injustice, nature as refuge from human conflict; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

Three people converse outdoors near a body of water; one is addressed as Mr. Lincoln and another as Mr. Jordan. A man introduces himself as Kenneth Reynolds of the Monitor and speaks of a future government acknowledgment of wrongs.

“Good morning, Mr. Jordan.” 50:44 · “Why, Mr. Lincoln.” 50:47 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 50:51 (passage 50:44–51:15); US record: No renewal found

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