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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 48 · permalink

Ship

17:20–17:55 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; 1 name 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 17:3717:37

Play from 17:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 101–101. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure on deck, indistinct features visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands on the deck of a ship at night. [frame:1]
Also said
“Set sail farewell to the land” 17:25 · “The gale follows fair of bat” 17:25
Seen
ship deck [frame:1], building in background [frame:1], lights along ship's side [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and reflective; themes: departure, solitude, nighttime voyage; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, silhouetted figure against dark background, minimal lighting

A person stands on a ship's deck at night, with a building visible in the background. The transcript includes a poetic recitation about sailing away from land.

“Once more on the deck I stand” 17:25 · “Of my own swift gliding craft” 17:25 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 17:37 (passage 17:20–17:55); US record: No renewal found

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