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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 27 · permalink

Private office

9:13–9:39 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; 5 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 9:269:26

Play from 9:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 63–63. 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
  • Commodore Jordan (named at t:9:38): older man with long white beard, wearing dark formal coat visible, audible
  • man in naval uniform, seated, balding visible
  • man in naval uniform, seated, side profile visible
  • man in naval uniform, seated, back to camera visible
  • man in naval uniform, seated, right side of table visible
Seen happening
  • A man with a white beard stands at a table and speaks to seated officers. [frame:1]
Also said
“Good night, gentlemen.” 9:27 · “And you, Commodore Jordan?” 9:38
Seen
wooden table, naval uniforms, framed painting on wall, door with panels, papers on table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, formal; themes: military duty, resignation, hierarchy; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal composition with central figure standing

A man with a white beard stands at a table addressing seated officers; he announces his resignation from the United States Navy. The Commodore Jordan is addressed by another officer at the end of the beat.

“But I am compelled to tender my resignation.” 9:16 · “From the United States Navy.” 9:19 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 9:26 (passage 9:13–9:39); US record: No renewal found

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