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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 113 · permalink

Bar

1:02:41–1:03:31 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:481:02:48Frame at 1:03:131:03:13

Play from 1:02:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 183–184. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • Bill (named at t:63:03): man in tuxedo, medium build, adult visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, adult, standing near doorway visible
  • man seated at table, wearing suit visible
  • Belle (named at t:63:16): woman, partially visible, addressed as Belle audible
  • Ralph (named at t:63:03): man, possibly Ralph, seated or standing near Bill audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo stands near a doorway in a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
  • A crowded bar scene with men in suits and tuxedos seated at tables. [frame:2]
Also said
“Sure, Belle.” 63:16
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], tables and chairs [frame:2], wall sconces [frame:1], bed or large upholstered furniture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: social hierarchy, negotiation, gender roles; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests evening setting

A man in a tuxedo speaks with others in a crowded room; a woman named Belle is addressed. The setting appears to be a bar or lounge with patrons seated at tables.

“- You all right? - You all right?” 62:55 · “- Bill? - Some of the boys wanna have a little drink with you. - Oh, fine. New customers. - Uh, drinks from the customers. - Sure, Bill. - Can I have a seat, Ralph? - Oh, Bill. - I'll have you. - I'll have you.” 63:03 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 1:02:48 (passage 1:02:41–1:03:31); US record: No renewal found

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