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Private office

37:32–38:11 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; 2 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 37:3937:39Frame at 37:4837:48Frame at 38:0038:00Frame at 38:0738:07

Play from 37:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 46 · shots 267–271. 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
  • man, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing a dark coat over a collared shirt visible, audible
  • woman, mid-30s, blonde curled hair, wearing a dark bonnet and a polka-dot dress with a white collar visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in a room with a window behind them. [frame:1]
  • The woman speaks with a concerned expression. [frame:2]
  • The woman continues speaking, looking earnest. [frame:3]
  • The man and woman face each other closely, engaged in conversation. [frame:4]
Also said
“Your work on the monitor is completed. They don't even want you. But darling, this is my one chance.” 37:48 · “With or without your help, the monitor would be built. But I've got to see it through.” 38:04
Seen
window with panes, bonnet with ruffles, polka-dot dress with white collar, dark coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: personal ambition vs. relationship, professional vindication, gender roles in work; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast studio lighting, period costume detail

A man and a woman in period costume argue indoors about her going to work on a monitor project. She insists it is her chance to vindicate herself, while he questions why she must go when her work is done and they don't want her.

“Our first victory. I'm going after all. Aren't you glad? Should I be?” 37:39 · “Why do you insist upon going?” 37:44 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 37:39 (passage 37:32–38:11); US record: No renewal found

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