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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 119 · permalink

Private office

1:04:51–1:05:35 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:04:531:04:53Frame at 1:05:151:05:15

Play from 1:04:51 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 72 · shots 191–192. 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 white tuxedo jacket and bow tie, balding, medium build visible
  • woman with dark wavy hair, wearing dark dress with sheer overlay visible, audible
  • man seen from back, dark hair, wearing dark suit visible, audible
  • man not fully visible, mentioned as 'Chief' mentioned
  • reporter, not visible, mentioned as 'good reporter' mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo stands in a room with a woman visible in the background. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a dark dress speaks to a man seen from behind. [frame:2]
Also said
“That's a girl I love, too.” 65:23 · “You better take him along, Chief. He's a good reporter. Come on.” 65:28
Seen
white tuxedo jacket [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], dark dress with sheer overlay [frame:2], door [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: confinement, rescue, romantic involvement, corruption; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, static camera

A woman is trapped in a soundproof room and pleads to be let out while men outside discuss rescuing her. A reporter is urged to join the rescue effort.

“Don't you come near me.” 65:04 · “This room is soundproof.” 65:14 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 1:04:53 (passage 1:04:51–1:05:35); US record: No renewal found

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