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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 184 · permalink

Forest

51:37–51:58 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:4351:43Frame at 51:5451:54

Play from 51:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 105 · shots 436–437. 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
  • man in tuxedo, clean-shaven, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • woman in dark coat and hat, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • man with beard, wearing patterned shawl over tuxedo, older, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand facing each other outdoors. [frame:1]
  • The bearded man speaks while the other two listen. [frame:2]
Also said
“Will have died in vain.” 51:44 · “Let's hope that from you will come a generation with vision broad enough to realize the futility of war.” 51:52
Seen
tuxedo, dark coat and hat, patterned shawl
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and reflective; themes: sacrifice, legacy, anti-war sentiment; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, natural lighting, formal costumes suggest period drama

Three people stand outdoors in formal wear while one speaks about finishing a task to honor the dead and hopes for a future generation that understands war's futility. The setting appears to be a wooded area during daylight.

“There's no turning back.” 51:38 · “We must finish the work we're in, lest those who have already gone...” 51:41 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 51:43 (passage 51:37–51:58); US record: No renewal found

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