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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 62 · permalink

Ship

21:57–22:20 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:5821:58Frame at 22:0222:02Frame at 22:1122:11Frame at 22:1722:17

Play from 21:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 34 · shots 151–158. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:4
Time of day
night evidence: frame:4
People
  • Lieutenant Renz (named at t:22:03): man in uniform, visible in frame:1 and frame:3 visible
  • several crew members in dark uniforms, silhouetted near fire and barrels visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands near a large wave or explosion on water. [frame:1]
  • Crew members are silhouetted near fire and barrels on a ship. [frame:2]
  • The man in uniform is seen again near the water disturbance. [frame:3]
  • A burning ship is visible at night, with flames and smoke rising. [frame:4]
Seen
wave or explosion on water [frame:1, frame:3], fire [frame:2, frame:4], barrels [frame:2], burning ship [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, accusatory; themes: accountability, naval disaster, consequences of panic; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dramatic lighting, wide shots of destruction, medium shots of characters in crisis

A man in uniform is seen near a large wave or explosion on water; crew members are silhouetted near fire and barrels; a wider shot shows a burning ship at night. A voice accuses Lieutenant Renz of causing a fire during panic.

“Lieutenant Renz, I call you to accompany your actions. I'll answer to the board of inquiry. In your panic, you had us set afire. I've furthered to save a hull and engine.” 22:03 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 21:58 (passage 21:57–22:20); US record: No renewal found

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