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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 76 · permalink

Living room

28:26–29:07 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; 4 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 28:4328:43Frame at 29:0429:04

Play from 28:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 201–202. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in formal dark suit and bow tie, holding glass visible, audible
  • older man in dark formal coat, gesturing visible, audible
  • woman in patterned gown, seated visible
  • man in dark coat, standing behind woman visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a formal room, one holding a glass. [frame:1]
  • A woman sits in a conservatory while a man stands behind her. [frame:2]
Also said
“from the finest shipbuilder in the country.” 28:47 · “It just goes to prove what I've always said. Commodore Farragut is an amazing man. Oh, he's a magnificent man.” 29:01
Seen
glass decanter, formal chairs, potted plants
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and admiring; themes: naval strategy, social praise, formal gatherings; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes

Two men converse in a formal interior while a woman sits in a sunlit conservatory. The dialogue references naval tactics and praises Commodore Farragut.

“And so you see how without maneuvering around, we keep on firing.” 28:32 · “Genius, my dear friend.” 28:42 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 28:43 (passage 28:26–29:07); US record: No renewal found

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