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58:38–58:48 Registered 1937

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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:4358:43

Play from 58:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 174–174. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a patterned dress and hat, standing on the far left visible
  • woman in dark suit and skirt, standing second from left visible
  • woman in dark dress with white collar and belt, standing third from left visible
  • woman in light dress with sash, standing on the far right visible
Seen happening
  • Four women stand in a line, adjusting their positions. [frame:1]
Seen
hats [frame:1], dresses [frame:1], belt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, instructional; themes: direction, performance, group positioning; style notes: static medium shot, studio lighting, formal staging

Four women stand in a line, adjusting their positions as directed by an off-screen voice. The setting appears to be an indoor space with studio lighting, likely a stage or studio.

“That's fine. Now, turn around.” 58:40 · “This little girl on the end, just a little higher, please.” 58:44 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 Slaves in Bondage (1937) at 58:43 (passage 58:38–58:48); US record: No renewal found

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