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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 78 · permalink

Living room

29:35–29:52 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:3629:36Frame at 29:4129:41Frame at 29:4929:49

Play from 29:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 209–211. 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:2
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build, dark hair, seen from side and back visible
  • woman in patterned dress with puffed sleeves, light hair styled up, wearing necklace visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman begins winding a string or cord while speaking. [frame:1]
  • The man stands holding a small object while the woman sits and continues winding. [frame:2]
  • The woman looks forward, still holding the cord, with a focused expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“We'll build the greatest warship that ever fired a salvo.” 29:43 · “I'll think of it only as building a great ship.” 29:47
Seen
patterned dress [frame:1], necklace [frame:1], dark suit [frame:2], cord or string being wound [frame:1], furniture including chairs and table [frame:2], large windows with panes [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: determined and restless; themes: industrial ambition, personal resolve, gender roles in labor; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period costume, indoor setting with large windows

A man and a woman are in a room with large windows and furniture; the woman speaks about building a warship while winding something. The man stands nearby, holding an object, as she expresses restlessness and determination.

“And do you start work immediately? Full speed ahead. Oh, there I go. Let me wind.” 29:35 · “I can't sit still.” 29:41 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 29:36 (passage 29:35–29:52); US record: No renewal found

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