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Private office

12:50–13:26 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:5112:51Frame at 13:0913:09

Play from 12:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 78–79. 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, frame:2
People
  • older man, gray hair, wearing a dark naval uniform with epaulets and medals, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • Raymond (named at t:13:14): younger man, clean-shaven, wearing a dark naval uniform, standing, holding a hat visible, audible
  • man in naval uniform, standing to the right of p2, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A naval officer sits at a desk, looking down at papers. [frame:1]
  • Three naval officers are in an office; one stands and interrupts another who is seated. [frame:2]
Also said
“Because I'm resigning from the United States Navy.” 13:17 · “I know that everything I hold dear belongs to Virginia.” 13:17
Seen
naval uniform [frame:1, frame:2], desk with papers and books [frame:2], bookshelves [frame:2], candlestick [frame:1], hat held by officer [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: duty vs loyalty, military hierarchy, sectional conflict; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal composition with symmetrical framing around the desk and bookshelves

A naval officer resigns from the United States Navy, declaring his loyalty to Virginia, while another officer interrupts a briefing to deliver this news. The scene takes place in a formal office with bookshelves and military decor, as orders are being given and contested.

“All leave has been canceled.” 12:57 · “Forts, arsenals and other government property are being seized in the name of the southern Confederacy.” 13:01 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 12:51 (passage 12:50–13:26); US record: No renewal found

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