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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 124 · permalink

Private office

1:06:44–1:07:23 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:031:07:03Frame at 1:07:221:07:22

Play from 1:06:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 203–204. 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:2
People
  • man in dark suit, mid-30s, average build, holding phone to ear visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing near p1, watching visible
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, standing near back wall visible
  • woman in dark dress, standing near left wall visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near p1, facing him visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit holds a phone to his ear while others stand around in a disordered room. [frame:2]
  • The same group remains in the room; no significant movement. [frame:2]
Also said
“Do we take the place over?” 67:17 · “Now you're talking sense.” 67:21
Seen
overturned chairs, telephone, curtained windows, wall sconces
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and unresolved; themes: power negotiation, urban crime, post-conflict aftermath; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, cluttered composition suggesting recent conflict

A group of people stands in a dimly lit interior space with overturned furniture; one man speaks on the phone while others watch. The transcript indicates they are downtown and discussing taking over a place.

“Bye, Pulse!” 67:10 · “We're down town.” 67:11 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 1:07:03 (passage 1:06:44–1:07:23); US record: No renewal found

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