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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 67 · permalink

Workshop

23:38–24:20 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:5023:50Frame at 24:1124:11

Play from 23:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 170–171. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
workshop (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, gray hair, wearing vest and shirt, holding a tool visible
  • Constance (named at t:23:47): woman, wearing a fur-trimmed coat and hat, standing at a workbench visible, audible
  • man, wearing shirt and trousers, arms crossed, smiling visible
Also said
“Behold the monitor.” 24:00 · “I've never seen anything quite like it. You're right.” 24:09
Seen
wooden monitor [frame:2], tools on workbench [frame:2], wine bottle [frame:2], barrel [frame:1], workbench [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: triumphant and celebratory; themes: invention, collaboration, celebration; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

Two men and a woman are in a workshop-like space with tools and a large wooden object. One man speaks to the woman, who is named Constance, about a completed project called 'the monitor' and celebrates with wine.

“Steady, steady. Too late to make mistakes now.” 23:40 · “Constance.” 23:47 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 23:50 (passage 23:38–24:20); US record: No renewal found

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