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59:39–1:00:02 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:4359:43Frame at 59:5459:54

Play from 59:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 65 · shots 176–177. 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
  • lying on floor, wearing light-colored top and dark patterned skirt or dress visible
  • kneeling, wearing dark overalls or sleeveless top, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A person lies on the floor while another kneels beside them. [frame:1]
  • The kneeling person grabs or pulls the person on the floor. [frame:2]
Also said
“My God. Kicker, kicker. Oh.” 59:44 · “That's it, kicker!” 59:58
Seen
floor [frame:1], overalls or sleeveless top [frame:2], light-colored top [frame:1], dark patterned skirt or dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, physical struggle, unclear power dynamic; style notes: grainy black-and-white, close framing on physical struggle, high-contrast lighting

A person is lying on the floor while another person in overalls kneels beside them, appearing to struggle or assist. The transcript includes exclamations and the word 'kicker' repeated, suggesting a tense or physical confrontation.

“Ah!” 59:39 · “Oh, you will? I fell pet, you!” 59:42 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 59:43 (passage 59:39–1:00:02); US record: No renewal found

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