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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 19 · permalink

Private office

9:13–9:24 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:189:18

Play from 9:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 29–29. 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:1
People
  • Belle (named at t:9:14): woman, light-colored hair styled in waves, wearing dark top, holding telephone receiver visible, audible
  • Nick (named at t:9:13): unseen audible, mentioned
Also said
“Clean out Berrywood right away.” 9:15 · “Okay, clean the joint out.” 9:21
Seen
telephone receiver, lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: criminal operation, telephone communication under pressure, female authority; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static shot emphasizing dialogue

A woman speaks on the telephone, giving orders to someone named Nick about clearing out a location called Berrywood. She instructs him to move operations to another place and confirms the urgency of the situation.

“Hello, Nick?” 9:13 · “This is Belle.” 9:14 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 9:18 (passage 9:13–9:24); US record: No renewal found

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