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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 68 · permalink

Private office

24:20–24:39 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:2224:22Frame at 24:2824:28Frame at 24:3524:35

Play from 24:20 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 37 · shots 172–174. 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:2
People
  • older man, white hair, wearing a light shirt and dark vest, holding a glass visible, audible
  • person in dark coat and fur hat, seated at table visible
  • man in light shirt, arms crossed, seated at table visible
Seen happening
  • An older man holds a glass and speaks. [frame:1]
  • Three people sit at a table; the older man gestures with a glass. [frame:2]
  • The older man smiles while holding a glass. [frame:3]
Also said
“He's the biggest ship builder in all the land. But I'm the best. And besides, ships don't grunt land.” 24:31 · “The Monitor.” 24:37
Seen
glass [frame:1], table [frame:2], basket [frame:2], fur hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious but with a hint of pride or defiance in the speaker; themes: shipbuilding, competition, legacy; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, theatrical framing

An older man in a vest speaks while holding a glass, seated with two others at a table in a dim interior. The transcript mentions Washington, Mr. Bushnell, shipbuilding, and the Monitor.

“Are you going to take it to Washington? At once.” 24:24 · “Father says Mr. Bushnell is submitting plans for 9:00, too. Bushnell?” 24:26 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 24:22 (passage 24:20–24:39); US record: No renewal found

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