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Private office

39:19–39:47 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:2239:22Frame at 39:2739:27Frame at 39:3539:35Frame at 39:4339:43

Play from 39:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 46 · shots 280–284. 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 in dark coat, waistcoat, bow tie, and top hat; medium build visible
  • man in light trousers, dark jacket, bow tie, and top hat; medium build visible
  • man in dark coat, patterned vest, and top hat; medium build visible
  • woman in dark period dress with bonnet or head covering visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand in a room, one seated on a stool. [frame:1]
  • A woman stands by a window, looking out. [frame:2]
  • The woman is seen through window bars, looking forward. [frame:3]
  • The men continue to stand and sit in the room, one gesturing. [frame:4]
Seen
top hats [frame:1], wooden stool [frame:1], window with bars [frame:3], wooden paneled walls [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and foreboding; themes: impending disaster, fate of sailors, confinement; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume detail, confined interior framing

Three men in 19th-century formal wear stand and sit in a wooden-paneled room, discussing a ship named the Iron Carpenter. A woman in period dress is seen looking out a window, then through its bars, as the men speak about a storm and crewmen not returning.

“Crazy Erickson. Remember when those guns exploded and killed six men on the Princeton? Yeah. They say there's a storm coming up. Twenty to one, none of that crew ever come back. There she goes. The Iron Carpenter.” 39:28 · “A good name for her.” 39:45 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 39:22 (passage 39:19–39:47); US record: No renewal found

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