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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 28 · permalink

Private office

9:39–10:37 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 10:0810:08

Play from 9:39 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 18 · shots 64–64. 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, gray hair, mustache, wearing a dark double-breasted naval uniform with epaulets and buttons visible, audible
Also said
“Any section of the land over which old glory waves, is my home.” 10:11 · “My country. May she ever be right. but right or wrong. My country.” 10:24
Seen
naval uniform
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and patriotic; themes: duty, national loyalty, personal history, military service; style notes: static medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, formal composition

A man in a naval uniform speaks about his service, his neighbor Captain Buchanan, and his loyalty to the nation. He quotes Stephen Decatur’s sentiment about country and responds to being addressed as 'Mr. President.'

“I have seen 47 years' service in the Navy.” 9:46 · “Virginia.” 10:07 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 10:08 (passage 9:39–10:37); US record: No renewal found

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