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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 6 · permalink

Police station

1:49–1:57 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:531:53

Play from 1:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 5–5. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform with cap, medium build, adult visible, audible
  • man in dark uniform with cap, medium build, adult visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in uniform stand facing each other indoors. [frame:1]
Seen
uniforms [frame:1], sign [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, persuasive; themes: recruitment, authority, uniformed service; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

Two men in dark uniforms stand indoors and speak; one invites the other to join the 7th police. The setting appears to be a police station or similar official interior.

“Join the 7th police, sir. New York's best.” 1:49 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 1:53 (passage 1:49–1:57); US record: No renewal found

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