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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 103 · permalink

Private office

57:47–58:02 Registered 1937

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

Frame at 57:5557:55

Play from 57:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 170–170. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Jonathan (named at t:57:48): man in dark suit, tie, short hair, middle-aged, seated visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, tie, short hair, middle-aged, seated, facing p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks to another man seated across a table. [frame:1]
Seen
suit, table, tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, conversational; themes: social interaction, hospitality, male camaraderie; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, static framing, black-and-white

Two men in suits are seated at a table in an interior setting; one speaks while the other listens. The speaker invites the other to get a drink and says he will return shortly.

“Darling, get a drink. Come on, Jonathan, over here. Make yourselves at home. I'll be back in a minute.” 57:48 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 57:55 (passage 57:47–58:02); US record: No renewal found

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