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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 109 · permalink

Bedroom

1:00:02–1:00:16 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:051:00:05Frame at 1:00:121:00:12

Play from 1:00:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 178–179. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing visible
  • woman in light dress, standing visible
  • Nellie (named at t:60:10): woman in dark dress, walking away visible
  • Mr. Murray (named at t:60:13): unspecified, mentioned in transcript mentioned
Seen happening
  • A person is on the floor near a bed, suggesting a struggle. [frame:1]
  • A man and a woman stand near a bed while another woman walks away. [frame:2]
Also said
“You too, Nellie.” 60:10 · “Please, Mr. Murray, take me home. Oh, don't be in a hurry. Let's have a drink. Oh, I'm sorry this had to happen.” 60:13
Seen
bed, lamp, chair, round table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, social tension, personal appeal; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, minimal set design

In a bedroom, a man and a woman stand near a bed while another woman walks away; a struggle is mentioned in the transcript. A plea to leave and an offer to have a drink are exchanged.

“Stop it. Come on, break it up. Come on.” 60:04 · “Come on, scram.” 60:08 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 1:00:05 (passage 1:00:02–1:00:16); US record: No renewal found

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