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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 24 · permalink

Private office

8:03–8:22 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:088:08Frame at 8:178:17

Play from 8:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 14 · shots 58–59. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man with long white beard, wearing dark formal coat, standing visible
  • older man with balding head, seen from behind, seated visible
  • older man with receding hairline, seated, facing speaker visible
  • older man with sideburns, seated, facing speaker visible
Seen happening
  • A door with a plaque reading 'GIDEON WELLES SECRETARY OF THE NAVY' is shown. [frame:1]
  • A man with a white beard addresses seated men in a wood-paneled room. [frame:2]
Also said
“Delegates from six cotton states have met in Montgomery, Alabama,” 8:15 · “and formed the Confederate States of America.” 8:19
Seen
door plaque, bookshelf, chandelier
On screen
GIDEON WELLES SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: government, historical event, political assembly; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition

A man addresses a group in a wood-paneled room; a door plaque identifies the setting as Gideon Welles' office. The transcript mentions delegates forming the Confederate States of America.

“Gentlemen.” 8:12 · “This is serious business.” 8:13 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 8:08 (passage 8:03–8:22); US record: No renewal found

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