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19:54–20:17 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:5619:56Frame at 20:0420:04Frame at 20:0620:06Frame at 20:1320:13

Play from 19:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 118–123. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark uniform, holding a torch, raising arm visible
  • man in dark uniform, holding a rifle visible
  • man in dark uniform, standing near cannon visible
Seen happening
  • A man raises his arm while holding a torch. [frame:4]
  • A cannon is visible in a room with barred windows. [frame:3]
  • Men in uniform are seen in a smoky, fiery setting. [frame:1]
Seen
cannon, torch, rifle, barred windows
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: military conflict, action, nighttime operation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, silhouetted figures, smoke and fire effects, static framing

A group of men in uniform are seen in a dim, smoke-filled setting with fire and cannons, suggesting a military action at night. One man raises his arm while holding a torch, and another holds a rifle, with a cannon visible in a room with barred windows.

“Oh” 19:58 · “The Merrimack! Double firing! Part!” 20:00 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 19:56 (passage 19:54–20:17); US record: No renewal found

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