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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 121 · permalink

Private office

1:06:04–1:06:27 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:06:071:06:07Frame at 1:06:121:06:12Frame at 1:06:191:06:19Frame at 1:06:251:06:25

Play from 1:06:04 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 73 · shots 196–199. 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, wearing a white coat, dark hair, medium build visible
  • man, wearing a dark suit and tie, dark hair, medium build visible
  • woman, blonde hair, wearing a dark sleeveless dress with a sash visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white coat grabs another man in a dark suit by the lapels. [frame:3]
  • A woman in a dark dress looks surprised and opens her mouth. [frame:4]
Seen
table, statue, lamp, blurred lights
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, surprise; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a white coat confronts another man in a dark suit in a dimly lit room; a woman in a dark dress reacts with surprise. The scene includes a table with a statue and a lamp, and a dark exterior shot with blurred lights is shown.

“Come on in there. What do you think you're getting paid for?” 66:05 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 1:06:07 (passage 1:06:04–1:06:27); US record: No renewal found

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