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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 80 · permalink

Conservatory

30:22–30:56 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:2330:23Frame at 30:2530:25Frame at 30:3530:35Frame at 30:4930:49

Play from 30:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 221–224. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
conservatory (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, mid-adult, average build visible
  • woman in floral dress, mid-adult, average build visible
  • Commodore (named at t:30:30): older man with white hair and mustache, wearing naval uniform with epaulets and buttons visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit embraces a woman in a floral dress. [frame:1]
  • A man in a naval uniform stands with hands clasped. [frame:3]
  • The man in the naval uniform turns his head slightly. [frame:4]
Seen
floral dress, naval uniform with epaulets, large windows with plants, wooden chair, potted plant
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly theatrical; themes: social etiquette, military formality, romantic interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, period costumes, static framing

A man in a suit embraces a woman in a floral dress in a conservatory; a man in a naval uniform stands nearby. The transcript includes a line about firing a salute before entering a conservatory and asking the commodore to bring his coach and horse.

“Hereafter, I'll fire a salute of at least 21 guns before entering a conservatory. Commodore, you're just the man I want to see. Will you bring your coach? Will you bring your horse?” 30:30 · “You tell them I can't. I'll go home and dress.” 30:44 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 30:23 (passage 30:22–30:56); US record: No renewal found

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