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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 49 · permalink

Ship

17:55–18:11 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; 4 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 17:5817:58Frame at 18:0618:06

Play from 17:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 28 · shots 102–103. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark naval uniform with cap, gesturing with right hand visible
  • man in dark naval uniform with cap, standing with hands clasped visible
  • man in dark naval uniform with cap, standing at attention visible
  • sailors in dark uniforms, working with ropes and equipment on deck visible
Seen happening
  • Three men in naval uniforms stand in a corridor; one gestures while speaking. [frame:1]
  • Sailors work on deck with ropes and equipment under overhead rigging. [frame:2]
Also said
“Like the ocean bird our home” 17:55 · “Will find far out on the sea” 17:55
Seen
naval uniforms [frame:1], ropes and rigging [frame:2], bucket [frame:1], overhead lamps [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and lyrical; themes: naval life, freedom, journey; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged composition

Three men in naval uniforms stand in a ship's interior corridor; one gestures while speaking. In a wider shot, sailors work on deck with ropes and equipment under overhead rigging.

“Shoot through the sparkling foam” 17:55 · “Like an ocean bird set free” 17:55 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 17:58 (passage 17:55–18:11); US record: No renewal found

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