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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 25 · permalink

Private office

8:22–8:38 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 8:278:27Frame at 8:358:35

Play from 8:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 15 · shots 60–61. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • bald man with mustache, wearing dark military-style uniform with buttons and epaulets visible
  • group of men seated at a long table, mostly in dark uniforms or suits, backs to camera visible
  • man standing at head of table, bald, wearing dark coat over vest visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands and looks off-camera. [frame:1]
  • A group of men sit at a long table while one man stands at the head. [frame:2]
Also said
“It is imperative that the affairs of the Navy Department be undertaken with no division of loyalty.” 8:32
Seen
long table [frame:2], wood-paneled walls [frame:1, frame:2], chairs [frame:2], bookshelf [frame:2], uniforms with buttons and epaulets [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: loyalty, political decision-making, military authority; style notes: static medium and wide shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal composition with figures arranged around a table

A man in a dark uniform stands before a seated group in a wood-paneled room; transcript lines discuss Virginia's state convention and loyalty in the Navy Department. No names are spoken that identify individuals in the frames.

“Virginia has called a state convention to decide whether or not she will secede.” 8:22 · “Among you gentlemen, there are two native-born Virginians.” 8:28 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 8:27 (passage 8:22–8:38); US record: No renewal found

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