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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 90 · permalink

Ship

34:22–35:35 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:2934:29Frame at 34:4034:40Frame at 35:0235:02Frame at 35:2535:25

Play from 34:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 239–245. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • sailor in dark uniform and cap, holding a rope, medium build, appears mid-30s visible, audible
  • sailor in dark uniform and cap, slightly heavier build, mid-30s visible, audible
  • Silver (named at t:34:57): naval officer in formal uniform with epaulets and cap, bearded, mid-40s visible, audible
  • Reynolds (named at t:34:55): man in light shirt and sailor cap, clean-shaven, mid-30s visible, audible
  • Patty (named at t:34:47): not visible mentioned
  • Lieutenant Green (named at t:35:16): not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • Two sailors stand inside a ship, one holding a rope, speaking to each other. [frame:1]
  • The sailor on the left speaks with an expressive face while the other listens. [frame:2]
  • A man in a light shirt and a naval officer in uniform face each other in conversation. [frame:3]
  • Two sailors stand on deck with a city visible in the background, one holding a rope. [frame:4]
Also said
“Dismissed.” 35:06 · “After dark.” 35:22
Seen
naval uniform, sailor cap, rope, epaulets, city skyline
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but resolved; themes: duty vs. dismissal, loyalty under pressure, covert operations; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period naval uniforms, confined interior framing

Two sailors in uniform speak with a naval officer inside a ship or dockside building; one sailor is persuaded to rejoin a mission despite having been dismissed from the Navy. The officer gives orders to sail after dark to avoid being seen by enemy friends.

“But how does an able-bodied seaman get aboard such a looking object?” 34:25 · “Reynolds, you know the ship pretty well, don't you? I ought to.” 34:57 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 34:29 (passage 34:22–35:35); US record: No renewal found

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