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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 123 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:06:30–1:06:44 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; 2 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 1:06:341:06:34Frame at 1:06:411:06:41

Play from 1:06:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 201–202. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with mustache, wearing dark suit and light shirt visible
  • back of head and shoulders, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit is visible behind another person. [frame:1]
  • View from inside a vehicle moving down a lit street at night. [frame:2]
Seen
suit [frame:1], streetlights [frame:2], vehicle dashboard [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to tense; themes: urban night, interpersonal tension; style notes: black-and-white, low-angle shot from vehicle, high-contrast lighting on faces

A man in a suit is seen from behind another person in an interior setting, followed by a night street view from a moving vehicle. No names or specific events are established by the frames or transcript.

“Oh, yeah.” 66:35 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 1:06:34 (passage 1:06:30–1:06:44); US record: No renewal found

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