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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 65 · permalink

Private office

23:05–23:31 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:1123:11Frame at 23:2423:24

Play from 23:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 167–168. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in maid's uniform with white apron and cap visible
  • Miss Jordan (named at t:23:09): woman wearing fur coat, hat, and gloves, carrying a basket visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Miss Jordan enters and greets the maid. [frame:1]
  • Miss Jordan smiles while holding a basket and says she is not frightened. [frame:2]
Also said
“Good luck. Oh, I'm not frightened.” 23:24 · “Come on, Vic.” 23:28
Seen
maid's uniform [frame:1], fur coat and hat [frame:2], basket [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: class interaction, duty, resilience; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A woman in a maid's uniform speaks with another woman wearing a fur coat and hat in an interior setting. The second woman carries a basket and says she is not frightened before calling someone named Vic.

“Hello, Miss Adams. - Hello, Miss Jordan.” 23:09 · “Don't bother to announce me. I'll go right down. If I may say so, Miss, it's like putting your head in the news. Still hard at it, huh?” 23:11 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 23:11 (passage 23:05–23:31); US record: No renewal found

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