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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 127 · permalink

Bedroom

1:07:47–1:07:57 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:521:07:52

Play from 1:07:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 210–210. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in tuxedo, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo holds a pistol in a bedroom. [frame:1]
Seen
pistol [frame:1], bed with satin sheets [frame:1], tuxedo [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, threat, formal attire in violent context; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal costume, static framing

A man in formal wear holds a pistol in a bedroom while speaking. The transcript indicates he is commanding someone to drop something and threatening to make them join others.

“Drop that!” 67:49 · “Come on, you. You're gonna join your friends.” 67:54 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 1:07:52 (passage 1:07:47–1:07:57); US record: No renewal found

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