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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 89 · permalink

Ship

33:46–34:22 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:5733:57Frame at 34:1234:12Frame at 34:1934:19

Play from 33:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 236–238. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark naval officer uniform with epaulets, clean-shaven, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Lieutenant Worden (named at t:34:15): man in light shirt and dark trousers, wearing a cap, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man in dark naval uniform with cap, bearded, mid-adult visible
  • McPherson (named at t:34:15): man in dark naval uniform with cap, clean-shaven, mid-adult visible
  • Callahan (named at t:34:15): man in dark naval uniform with cap, clean-shaven, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • A naval officer speaks to a man in a light shirt. [frame:1]
  • Three men in naval uniforms stand with a man in a light shirt who is smiling. [frame:2]
  • Four men in naval uniforms and one man in a light shirt stand together on deck. [frame:3]
Also said
“Fatty Mac!” 34:04 · “Lieutenant Worden, this is McPherson and Callahan. They serve with me on the Merrimack, both good men. Glad to have them aboard.” 34:15
Seen
naval officer uniform [frame:1], naval enlisted uniform [frame:2], ship deck railing [frame:3], cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and procedural, with a moment of camaraderie; themes: military duty, recruitment, naval service; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting on an outdoor set, period naval uniforms

A naval officer in uniform speaks with two enlisted men and another officer on a ship's deck. The transcript reveals they are reporting for duty, with one man mentioning a loss of a person named Molly.

“Take these men to Lieutenant Green aboard ship.” 33:51 · “Well, that gives us nine officers and 37 men. It's been more difficult getting volunteers than we expected. Your appearance hasn't helped us any.” 33:54 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 33:57 (passage 33:46–34:22); US record: No renewal found

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