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Private office

33:07–33:26 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 33:1233:12Frame at 33:2233:22

Play from 33:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 44 · shots 231–232. 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
  • bearded man in dark military uniform with epaulets and sash, holding a sword visible
  • man with beard and bow tie, wearing a dark suit, resembling Abraham Lincoln visible, audible
  • older man with long white beard and dark formal coat visible
Seen happening
  • A man in military uniform speaks to a man resembling Lincoln. [frame:1]
  • The man resembling Lincoln turns to speak with an older man with a white beard. [frame:2]
Also said
“Do not assign a crew.” 33:18 · “That is very wise, Mr. President.” 33:24
Seen
military uniform with epaulets, sword, wood-paneled walls, bookshelf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and tense; themes: military command, wartime decision-making, presidential authority; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition

Two men in formal 19th-century attire converse in a wood-paneled room; a third man with a white beard joins them. The dialogue references a 'monitor' and a 'President,' suggesting a military or governmental decision about a vessel's crew.

“Although I share your confidence in the monitor.” 33:09 · “Were it not that our cause is in desperate straits. I understand, sir.” 33:14 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 33:12 (passage 33:07–33:26); US record: No renewal found

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