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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 85 · permalink

Private office

32:35–33:07 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; 3 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 32:5132:51

Play from 32:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 230–230. 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:1
People
  • Mr. Secretary (named at t:32:41): older man, seated, wearing dark suit, balding, holding a document visible, audible
  • Lieutenant Walden (named at t:32:59): standing man, military uniform with medals, beard, stern expression visible, audible
  • The President (named at t:32:53): unseen, voice enters at 32:53 audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A naval officer stands before a seated official in a formal office. [frame:1]
  • The seated official holds a document and appears to be in discussion with the officer. [frame:1]
Also said
“Good morning, gentlemen.” 32:57 · “The secretary tells me that you volunteered to command the monitor. Yes, Mr. President.” 33:02
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], desk with papers and inkwell [frame:1], wooden door with circular panels [frame:1], framed painting on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: military duty, command responsibility, government oversight; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing emphasizing authority

A naval officer stands before a seated official in a formal office as they discuss the seaworthiness of a monitor; the President enters and addresses the men. The conversation includes references to naval experts and a volunteer command.

“The steering gear jammed, but it's been fixed. You think it will work now? I do, sir.” 32:41 · “The President, sir.” 32:53 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 32:51 (passage 32:35–33:07); US record: No renewal found

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