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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 34 · permalink

Street

11:50–12:21 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; 3 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 11:5411:54Frame at 12:0712:07Frame at 12:1812:18

Play from 11:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 73–75. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark military uniform with cap, young adult, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in dark coat and feathered hat, middle-aged, slight build visible, audible
  • older man in top hat and dark coat, mustache, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The older man escorts the woman away while the uniformed man watches. [frame:3]
Also said
“Ha-ha!” 12:07 · “Goodbye, young man. Goodbye, sir.” 12:14
Seen
military uniform with cap [frame:1], feathered hat [frame:1], top hat [frame:2], dark overcoat [frame:2], WANTED poster [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and sorrowful; themes: conflict between duty and love, family loyalty, farewell and separation; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

A man in a military uniform speaks to a woman in a feathered hat; an older man in a top hat intervenes and escorts the woman away while the uniformed man watches. The dialogue indicates a conflict over loyalty and love, with the woman being led away as the uniformed man says goodbye.

“Once you were proud of my wearing this uniform, I haven't changed. You have. You'll be fighting against my father. You can't love me and aim to kill those I love.” 11:52 · “Come, Julie, it's time.” 12:06 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 11:54 (passage 11:50–12:21); US record: No renewal found

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