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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 100 · permalink

Private office

55:52–56:12 Registered 1937

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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:5355:53Frame at 55:5655:56Frame at 56:0556:05

Play from 55:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 165–167. 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, middle-aged, wearing formal tuxedo with bow tie, visible in close-up visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man opens his mouth as if to drink. [frame:1]
  • The man drinks from a glass held to his lips. [frame:2]
  • The man continues drinking, hand covering his mouth. [frame:3]
Also said
“A little gin?” 56:03 · “And now a little port wine.” 56:07
Seen
glass, bottle, bottle, bottle, tuxedo
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, coercive; themes: intoxication, control, ritualized consumption; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in formal wear is shown drinking from a glass while bottles of alcohol are visible on a table. The transcript includes lines about whiskey, gin, and port wine, suggesting the consumption of multiple spirits.

“Open your mouth!” 55:53 · “That's right. A little whiskey.” 55:55 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 Slaves in Bondage (1937) at 55:53 (passage 55:52–56:12); US record: No renewal found

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