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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 112 · permalink

Restaurant

1:02:28–1:02:41 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:351:02:35

Play from 1:02:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 182–182. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • multiple individuals, some seated at tables, others standing; clothing appears formal or semi-formal for the era, but details are indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • People are seated at tables and standing in a crowded room. [frame:1]
Seen
tables [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], wall sconce or lamp [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to bustling; themes: social gathering, interior space; style notes: medium shot, black and white, studio lighting, crowded composition

A single frame shows a crowded interior space with people seated at tables and others standing. No names, time of day, or period are established by the frame or transcript.

“Ah!” 62:32 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 1:02:35 (passage 1:02:28–1:02:41); US record: No renewal found

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