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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 60 · permalink

Ship

21:03–21:31 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:0421:04Frame at 21:0921:09Frame at 21:1421:14Frame at 21:2521:25

Play from 21:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 34 · shots 136–145. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Constance Jordan (named at t:21:03): naval officer in uniform, adult male, medium build visible, audible
  • crew member in uniform, adult male, medium build visible
  • crew member in uniform, adult male, medium build visible
  • crew member in uniform, adult male, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A crew member stands at a railing with a weapon. [frame:2]
  • Two crew members engage in a physical struggle on deck. [frame:3]
  • Two officers confront each other, one holding a baton. [frame:4]
Also said
“Stand them off. Yes, sir.” 21:03 · “The only ones to get by will be dead.” 21:03
Seen
naval uniform [frame:1], ship railing [frame:2], smoke [frame:1], baton [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: naval warfare, command under pressure, sacrifice; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shots emphasizing action and confrontation, smoke adds visual drama

A naval officer orders the sinking of a ship to save the hull and engines from fire, while crew members prepare to repel boarders. The scene takes place on a ship's deck with visible smoke and crew in uniform.

“I'm going to sink it.” 21:03 · “What? We'll at least save our hull and engines from the fire.” 21:03 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 21:04 (passage 21:03–21:31); US record: No renewal found

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