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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 185 · permalink

Sidewalk

51:58–52:23 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; 3 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 52:0252:02Frame at 52:1552:15

Play from 51:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 105 · shots 438–439. 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
  • Constance Jordan (named at t:52:03): woman, wearing a dark coat and hat with a feather, light hair visible visible, audible
  • Mr. Lincoln (named at t:52:03): man, seen from back, wearing a dark coat and a plaid scarf, balding visible
  • man, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A woman speaks to Mr. Lincoln while another man looks on. [frame:1]
  • The woman and Mr. Lincoln walk away together down a path. [frame:2]
Seen
dark coat [frame:1], hat with feather [frame:1], plaid scarf [frame:2], bow tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and respectful; themes: farewell, gratitude, historical figure interaction; style notes: medium shot followed by rear view; black and white; natural outdoor lighting

A woman in a dark coat and hat speaks to a man identified as Mr. Lincoln, while another man in formal wear stands nearby. The woman and Mr. Lincoln then walk away together along a path with trees in the background.

“I'll never forget this talk, sir. And I...” 52:00 · “I shall remember you always, Mr. Lincoln. That's uncommon kind of you, ma'am. Thank you.” 52:03 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 52:02 (passage 51:58–52:23); US record: No renewal found

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