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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 107 · permalink

Bar

58:48–59:39 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; 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 59:1359:13

Play from 58:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 175–175. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, seated at table visible, audible
  • woman, partially visible, standing near table visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, behind bar visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near bar visible
Seen happening
  • A man speaks to a woman at a table in a bar. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, so she's better than I am. You better go home, kid.” 59:22 · “I'm going to help you. You're holding me back.” 59:37
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], tables and chairs [frame:1], wall sconce light [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: class tension, gender dynamics, social judgment; style notes: static medium shot, low-key lighting, period costume, interior framing

A scene in a dimly lit bar or restaurant where a man speaks to a woman, suggesting she is too good for the place, while others are present at tables and a bar counter. The dialogue includes tension and an offer to help, met with resistance.

“All you gotta do is look at the kid. And you know she's too good for this place.” 59:16 · “Too good, eh?” 59:20 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 59:13 (passage 58:48–59:39); US record: No renewal found

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