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Ship

36:49–37:32 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; 4 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 36:5736:57Frame at 37:0937:09Frame at 37:2337:23Frame at 37:3237:32

Play from 36:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 260–266. 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
  • John Erickson (named at t:37:02): older man, heavy-set, wearing a dark civilian suit with a bow tie and ruffled shirt visible, audible
  • older man, mustache, wearing a dark naval uniform with gold buttons and epaulets visible, audible
  • older man, clean-shaven, wearing a dark naval uniform with a cap and epaulets visible, audible
  • man seen from behind, wearing a dark coat and hat, walking away visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand facing each other in a ship's interior, engaged in a tense conversation. [frame:1]
  • The civilian man speaks emphatically to the naval officer beside him. [frame:2]
  • The civilian man turns and walks away from the officers, who remain standing. [frame:3]
  • The civilian man places a hand on one officer's shoulder as they move toward a doorway. [frame:4]
Also said
“If Reynolds don't go, the monitor stays right here, tied to the dock. And you go fight the Merrimack with your speeches.” 37:16 · “Maybe you find something wrong, eh?” 37:28
Seen
naval uniforms with epaulets and caps [frame:1], civilian suit with bow tie and ruffled shirt [frame:1], table with cloth and objects on it [frame:4], wooden stool [frame:4], doorway [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority, conflict, ownership, military discipline; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing emphasizing power dynamics

Three men in naval uniforms and one in civilian dress argue in a ship's interior; one man asserts ownership of the vessel and threatens to withhold it unless an officer is removed. The group then begins to disperse, with one man placing a hand on another's shoulder as they move toward a door.

“This is a case for us to decide. For you to decide? No, I, John Erickson, decide.” 37:02 · “I don't forget this ship is not paid for, and until then she is mine.” 37:12 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 36:57 (passage 36:49–37:32); US record: No renewal found

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