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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 43 · permalink

Living room

14:56–16:06 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:0315:03Frame at 15:2115:21Frame at 15:5015:50

Play from 14:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 89–91. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Connie (named at t:15:20): woman, curly hair, striped high-neck dress with dark sleeves, mid-20s to 30s visible, audible
  • Raymond (named at t:15:05): man, slicked-back hair, dark formal coat with buttons, mid-30s to 40s visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman and man embrace closely. [frame:1]
  • The woman speaks to the man, her expression earnest. [frame:2]
  • The woman turns away slightly while the man looks on. [frame:3]
Also said
“It's time for me to go now.” 15:32 · “Can I still dance?” 15:59
Seen
striped dress, dark formal coat, staircase, framed picture on wall, curly hair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and tense; themes: duty vs. love, impending war, nostalgia, parting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing emphasizing emotional distance despite physical closeness

A man and a woman embrace and speak in a formal interior; she wears a striped dress and he a dark coat. The dialogue reveals a conflict over duty and impending war, with references to skating and a bench under a tree.

“First Raymond now you Raymond has his duty and so I. Strange idea of duty. I shout and kill. It isn't that. Raymond thinks it's his duty to take up arms against father.” 15:05 · “And you love me, and yet you think it's your duty to fight against my brother? Connie, there isn't any war yet. And if it happens, it won't last long. There'll be small comfort till the families were destroyed.” 15:20 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 15:03 (passage 14:56–16:06); US record: No renewal found

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