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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 14 · permalink

Living room

8:01–8:11 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; 3 names 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 8:068:06

Play from 8:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 23–23. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman lying on chaise lounge, wearing light-colored dress, legs crossed, holding a book visible
  • woman standing, wearing patterned dress, dark hair styled up visible
  • man standing, wearing dark uniform with cap visible
Seen happening
  • The man in uniform stands near the two women in a room with furniture and wallpaper. [frame:1]
Seen
chaise lounge [frame:1], round table [frame:1], patterned wallpaper [frame:1], book [frame:1], uniform with cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and unresolved; themes: farewell, emotional distance, domestic tension; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, studio set with patterned decor

A man in uniform stands near a woman in a patterned dress while another woman lies on a chaise lounge in a room with patterned wallpaper and furniture. Dialogue suggests a farewell with emotional tension.

“Good night, honey. Goodbye, you mean.” 8:02 · “Well, okay, if that's the way you feel about it.” 8:06 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 8:06 (passage 8:01–8:11); US record: No renewal found

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