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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 116 · permalink

Private office

1:03:40–1:03:47 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 1:03:441:03:44

Play from 1:03:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 187–187. 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 in dark suit, back to camera visible
  • man in suit, facing right, smiling visible
  • woman in light dress, seated, looking at p2 visible
  • man in suit, left side, profile visible visible
  • man in suit, right side, facing p3 visible
Seen
suit [frame:1], dress [frame:1], chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or formal; themes: social interaction, formal gathering; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, group framing

A group of people in formal attire are gathered in a circle indoors, interacting closely. No names, dialogue, or specific actions are visible or audible in this beat.

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 1:03:44 (passage 1:03:40–1:03:47); US record: No renewal found

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