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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 11 · permalink

Living room

6:40–7:02 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:516:51

Play from 6:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 18–18. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a tuxedo and bowler hat, seated, holding a cigarette visible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing a dark dress, standing visible
Also said
“Barry Wood.” 6:48 · “Neck.” 6:52
Seen
lamp [frame:1], chair [frame:1], table [frame:1], cigarette [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: identity, secrecy, social interaction; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume, staged interior

A man in a tuxedo and hat sits at a table while a woman in a dark dress stands nearby in a dimly lit room; dialogue suggests a car ride and mentions a name, Barry Wood. The setting appears to be an interior space with furniture and lamps, and the conversation includes a question about someone's identity.

“It was so dark in the car, she wouldn't recognize me again anyway.” 6:43 · “Where were you going?” 6:46 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 6:51 (passage 6:40–7:02); US record: No renewal found

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