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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 20 · permalink

Sidewalk

6:56–7:25 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:007:00Frame at 7:097:09Frame at 7:147:14Frame at 7:227:22

Play from 6:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 12 · shots 44–49. 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
  • Connie (named at t:6:57): woman, light hair, wearing a dark coat and fur-trimmed hat visible, audible
  • Julie (named at t:6:57): woman, dark hair, wearing a patterned coat and fur hat visible, audible
  • man, mustache, wearing a dark coat, scarf, and fur hat visible, audible
  • man, wearing a dark coat and top hat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man in the top hat and Connie stand close together, smiling. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, no, you see the... Yes, we are.” 7:19 · “Oh!” 7:24
Seen
fur hat [frame:1], top hat [frame:3], fence [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and romantic; themes: romance, misunderstanding, engagement; style notes: medium shots, black-and-white, studio lighting on outdoor set, period costumes

Two women and two men are shown outdoors in winter coats and hats, conversing. Dialogue reveals a misunderstanding about an engagement, which is then confirmed.

“I don't know how you do it, Connie. I've been falling down all evening, only to find that some folks can get engaged the minute they hit the eye.” 6:57 · “Julie, I'm just trying to tell you that Connie hasn't accepted me yet. Oh, then you're not engaged.” 6:57 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 7:00 (passage 6:56–7:25); US record: No renewal found

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