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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 26 · permalink

Private office

8:38–9:13 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:568:56

Play from 8:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 62–62. 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
  • Captain Buchanan (named at t:8:49): man, middle-aged, mustache, wearing a dark double-breasted military uniform with epaulets and buttons visible, audible
Also said
“The son of Virginia.” 9:04 · “As my state goes, So must I.” 9:10
Seen
military uniform
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: loyalty, duty, state vs. individual; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

A man in a military uniform speaks about his loyalty to Virginia, stating that his decision follows his state's course. The scene is indoors, with no visible time-of-day indicators.

“Captain Buchanan.” 8:49 · “I was born in Virginia.” 9:03 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 8:56 (passage 8:38–9:13); US record: No renewal found

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