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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 50 · permalink

Ship

18:11–18:22 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:1418:14Frame at 18:1918:19

Play from 18:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 104–105. 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
People
  • man in naval officer uniform, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • man in naval officer uniform, mid-adult, medium build, smiling visible
  • sailor in beret and uniform, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Two naval officers stand side by side, one looking up, the other smiling at him. [frame:1]
  • A sailor in a beret operates a machine gun on a ship deck. [frame:2]
Seen
naval officer uniforms [frame:1], machine gun [frame:2], sailor beret [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted despite military setting; themes: naval life, romantic dialogue, military hierarchy; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period naval costume

Two men in naval uniforms stand together while a third sailor operates a machine gun on a ship. A voice speaks about love and cleanliness, addressing a young girl.

“Oh, and speaking of love, there's real love, boy. Well, there you are, my young girl. You're no prettier, but you're cleaner.” 18:12 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 18:14 (passage 18:11–18:22); US record: No renewal found

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