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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 74 · permalink

Bar

26:40–27:43 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; 7 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 26:4326:43Frame at 26:4826:48Frame at 27:1027:10Frame at 27:3727:37

Play from 26:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 192–195. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • older man, balding, wearing dark formal coat and top hat, holding a paper visible
  • man in dark coat and top hat, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in dark coat and top hat, seated at table with others visible
  • man in dark coat and top hat, seated at table, facing p3 visible
  • Commodore David G. Farragut (named at t:26:50): man in dark coat and top hat, standing, holding a glass visible, audible
  • Captain Erickson (named at t:27:26): man in dark coat and top hat, standing, facing p5 visible, audible
  • Kenneth Reynolds (named at t:27:34): younger man in dark coat and top hat, standing beside p6 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat sits reading a paper while another stands behind him. [frame:1]
  • Three men in top hats sit at a table, engaged in conversation. [frame:2]
  • A man in a top hat holds a glass while talking to two others standing at a bar. [frame:3]
  • Three men in top hats stand facing each other, one shaking hands with another. [frame:4]
Also said
“Would you gentlemen care to join us?” 27:22 · “I deem it most friendly if you'd join me at the bar.” 27:38
Seen
top hats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], formal coats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], paper [frame:1], glass [frame:3], table [frame:2], bar counter [frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense, with undertones of political conflict; themes: Civil War tensions, social etiquette, military identity, regional conflict; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, staged groupings

Men in 19th-century formal wear gather in a bar; one identifies himself as Commodore Farragut and orders a mint julep, leading to a social interaction with Captain Erickson and others. No explicit time of day or period is established beyond the clothing style and dialogue referencing the Civil War era.

“I asked for a mint julep, and unless I'm mistaken, you heard me ask for a mint julep. I presume you realize, sir, you asked for a southern drink. I beg your pardon, but my name is Adolf Schultz, vice president of Union Lawyer's League. Pardon me, my name is Commodore David G. Farragut of the United States Navy.” 26:50 · “Oh, I beg your pardon. Now, granted, if you'll let me stand around a mint julep. Sure, why not? After all, it's the men of the South we're fighting, not their liquor.” 27:08 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 26:43 (passage 26:40–27:43); US record: No renewal found

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