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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 71 · permalink

Private office

24:46–25:15 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; 5 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 24:4724:47Frame at 24:5224:52Frame at 24:5924:59Frame at 25:1125:11

Play from 24:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 177–183. 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, balding, wearing formal black suit with bow tie and white vest visible, audible
  • man in military uniform, seated at table visible
  • man in suit, seated at table, facing p1 visible
  • man in suit, seated at table, back to camera visible
  • man in suit, seated at table, side profile visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands holding a ship model and addresses a seated group. [frame:1]
  • The man gestures while speaking to the group seated around a table. [frame:2]
  • The man holds up a ship model for inspection. [frame:3]
  • The man stands behind a table with a ship model on it. [frame:4]
Also said
“We've examined your plans, but I fail to see how the guns can be fired from your ship.” 25:02 · “From the drawings you will find it is from the revolving turret that we do the firing, through the narrow ports.” 25:10
Seen
ship model, wood-paneled walls, long table with papers, military uniform, formal suits and bow ties
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: military planning, technical debate, authority and expertise; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, staged presentation

A man in formal attire presents a ship model to a group seated at a table in a wood-paneled room. He speaks about firing mechanisms from a revolving turret, while others listen or respond to his presentation.

“I will not bother to introduce myself because you all know who I am.” 24:47 · “And Senator Pillsbury, I have had the misfortune to deal with.” 24:53 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 24:47 (passage 24:46–25:15); US record: No renewal found

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