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Hearts in Bondage · Beat 91 · permalink

Private office

35:35–35:52 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:4235:42Frame at 35:5035:50

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 246–247. 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
  • Captain (named at t:35:41): older man, balding, wearing dark coat and patterned cravat visible, audible
  • man in dark military uniform with cap visible
  • Lieutenant Warden (named at t:35:41): man in lighter military uniform holding papers visible, audible
Also said
“I wish you were coming along too, Captain. But me? You've hit his weakness, Lieutenant Warden.” 35:41 · “He builds ships, but I don't ride on them. I get seasick.” 35:47
Seen
table with papers, military uniforms, cravat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious with a touch of wry humor; themes: military duty, personal limitation, professional planning; style notes: static medium shot and close-up, high-contrast black and white, studio lighting

Three men in a room discuss plans and a sea voyage; one man mentions seasickness. A close-up shows a smiling older man in formal attire.

“These plans you should have in your head.” 35:36 · “I don't really need them.” 35:38 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 35:42 (passage 35:35–35:52); US record: No renewal found

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