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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 39 · permalink

Private office

13:42–14:09 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:4913:49Frame at 14:0314:03

Play from 13:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 83–84. 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
  • Ken (named at t:13:47): man in naval uniform, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Father (named at t:13:56): older man in naval uniform, graying hair, medium build visible, audible
Also said
“Thanks for all you've taught me.” 13:48 · “Bye, Father.” 13:56
Seen
naval uniforms [frame:1, frame:2], desk with papers and books [frame:2], bookshelf [frame:2], window with curtains [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and formal; themes: duty, father-son relationship, military hierarchy; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal composition

Two men in naval uniforms speak in an office; one says goodbye to his father. The setting includes a desk, books, and a window with curtains.

“I regret that deeply, sir.” 13:42 · “Ken?” 13:47 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 13:49 (passage 13:42–14:09); US record: No renewal found

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