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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 63 · permalink

Ship

22:20–22:43 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:2322:23Frame at 22:2922:29Frame at 22:3622:36Frame at 22:4122:41

Play from 22:20 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 35 · shots 159–162. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, heavy-set, wearing dark officer's uniform with cap and epaulets, stern expression visible
  • younger man, medium build, wearing dark officer's uniform with buttons and shoulder insignia, serious expression visible
Seen happening
  • Two officers stand facing each other in a dark, smoky environment. [frame:1]
  • The younger officer looks intently at the older officer. [frame:2]
  • The older officer speaks to the younger officer with a stern expression. [frame:3]
  • The older officer continues to face the younger officer, maintaining a commanding posture. [frame:4]
Also said
“I charge you with conduct on becoming an officer within subordination and mutiny. Place him under arrest.” 22:36
Seen
military uniforms [frame:1], officer's cap [frame:3], smoke or fire in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: military discipline, authority vs. insubordination, conflict; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing on faces, dramatic shadows

Two officers in uniform confront each other in a dark, smoky setting while one is charged with insubordination. The transcript indicates an order to arrest the accused officer.

“the enemy.” 22:33 · “To be raised as good as news.” 22:34 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 22:23 (passage 22:20–22:43); US record: No renewal found

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