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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 110 · permalink

Private office

1:00:16–1:01:51 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; 1 name 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 1:01:041:01:04

Play from 1:00:16 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 66 · shots 180–180. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing shirt and vest, visible in frame 1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man is visible in a close-up, speaking intensely. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm going to run a series of articles warning the country girl to be careful as to what kind of ads they answer for jobs in the cities.” 61:14 · “You look beautiful when you're mad.” 61:38
Seen
shirt and vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: deception, exploitation, media responsibility, power dynamics; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man speaks in a dimly lit interior while transcript lines describe a scheme targeting young women through deceptive job ads. The dialogue references a 'Chief' and a plan to publish warning articles, ending with a tense exchange about playing.

“I told Nick and Belle not to give these girls anything to drink.” 60:18 · “We've suspected for some time that a gang is working the bull racket here.” 60:35 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 1:01:04 (passage 1:00:16–1:01:51); US record: No renewal found

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