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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 51 · permalink

Ship

18:22–18:46 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; 4 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 18:2918:29Frame at 18:4118:41

Play from 18:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 106–107. 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 naval uniform, smiling, wearing cap visible, audible
  • lieutenant (named at t:18:30): man in naval uniform with stripes on sleeve, facing p1 visible, audible
  • man in naval uniform, standing to right of p2 visible, audible
  • Molly (named at t:18:26): woman, not visible mentioned
Also said
“See the spatula. No use, Molly. The lieutenant's engaged.” 18:30 · “Although I still can't believe it. Why not? I always thought you were in love with a Merrimack. This old job is mighty close to my heart.” 18:34
Seen
naval uniforms [frame:1], spatula [t:18:30], ship interior structure [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and familiar among crew; themes: naval camaraderie, romantic rumor, duty vs. personal life; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting

Three men in naval uniforms stand together in a ship's interior; one is addressed as 'sir' and another as 'lieutenant'. A spatula is mentioned, and a woman named Molly is referenced but not visible.

“At ease, Patty. This isn't official. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.” 18:23 · “It's glad we all have to see you back, sir. Thank you. Look at it. Even Molly's making eyes at you.” 18:26 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 18:29 (passage 18:22–18:46); US record: No renewal found

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