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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 104 · permalink

Bar

58:02–58:15 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes 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 58:0958:09

Play from 58:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 171–171. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark suit, tie, medium build, short hair visible, audible
  • woman, dark sleeveless dress, blonde hair styled up visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand at a bar counter and speak. [frame:1]
Also said
“The recruits are waiting for you from the booking office.” 58:08 · “Okay.” 58:11
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], glass in man's hand [frame:1], shelves with bottles behind bar [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or transactional; themes: recruitment, social interaction in a bar; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, black-and-white film

A man in a suit and a woman in a dark dress stand at a bar counter and speak. The man is told recruits are waiting for him from the booking office.

“Have a drink with the girls.” 58:02 · “- Hello. - Stranger? Hello.” 58:03 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 58:09 (passage 58:02–58:15); US record: No renewal found

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