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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 17 · permalink

Living room

8:52–9:11 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 9:019:01

Play from 8:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 27–27. 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
  • man in suit, standing, gesturing visible
  • man seated, legs up on chair, wearing light shirt visible
  • woman standing, dark dress, near doorway visible
  • Nick (named at t:8:59): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit gestures toward a room while another man sits with legs up and a woman stands nearby. [frame:1]
Also said
“Nick, the phone. What's the matter, trouble? Come on, it's Belle. Hurry it up.” 8:59
Seen
couch [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], round table [frame:1], cigarette [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, urgency, domestic space; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, staged composition

A man in a suit gestures toward a room while another man sits with legs up; a woman stands nearby. A voice calls for Nick to answer the phone, mentioning Belle.

“The customer is always right.” 8:52 · “Get in that room. Oh, please, don't pay me. Get in that room. Come on.” 8:55 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 9:01 (passage 8:52–9:11); US record: No renewal found

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