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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 53 · permalink

Navy yard interior

18:48–19:46 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:5318:53Frame at 19:3119:31Frame at 19:3419:34Frame at 19:4319:43

Play from 18:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 109–114. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
navy_yard_interior (other, interior) evidence: frame:2, frame:4
People
  • Captain Gilman (named at t:19:20): older man, bearded, in a dark naval officer's uniform with cap and epaulets visible, audible
  • Lieutenant Cosgrove (named at t:18:56): younger man, clean-shaven, in a dark naval officer's uniform with cap and buttons visible, audible
  • man in naval uniform, seen from back or side, handling objects on a table visible
  • man in naval uniform, seen from back, walking away visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform holds a long object aloft in a dark space. [frame:1]
  • Captain Gilman speaks to subordinates in a room. [frame:2]
  • Lieutenant Cosgrove listens to Captain Gilman. [frame:3]
  • Men in uniform prepare items on a table in a room. [frame:4]
Also said
“Is it wise, sir, to destroy it? It is rather than have it fall into Confederate hands.” 19:28 · “And when I wish for your advice, Lieutenant, I shall ask for it.” 19:32
Seen
naval officer's uniform [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], long object (possibly a musket or signal flag) [frame:1], table with boxes and papers [frame:4], doorway and wall [frame:1, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: military command, sacrifice for strategic gain, hierarchical discipline; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black and white lighting, formal military framing

A naval officer orders the destruction of a Navy Yard to prevent its capture by advancing Confederate forces, dismissing a subordinate's concern. Men in uniform are shown preparing to carry out the order in a dimly lit interior space.

“We must destroy the yard.” 19:18 · “Captain Gilman, did you say destroy the yard, sir? I did.” 19:20 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 18:53 (passage 18:48–19:46); US record: No renewal found

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