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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 2 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:10–2:39 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; 4 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 1:541:54

Play from 1:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–1. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, visible in driver's seat, wearing dark clothes, seen in profile visible, audible
  • man, visible in passenger seat, wearing dark clothes, seen in profile visible, audible
  • man, visible in back seat, wearing dark clothes, seen in profile visible, audible
  • Mary Lou (named at t:2:29): woman, lying in the road, not visible in frame 1, mentioned in dialogue mentioned
Also said
“Then if I get shot, don't forget you guys owe me two weeks' commission.” 2:15 · “It's Mary Lou!” 2:29
Seen
car [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: comedy, danger, recognition, group dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up from outside the car, high contrast lighting, static framing

A group of men in a car react to seeing a woman lying in the road; one volunteers to approach her after joking about being owed commission if shot. The woman is identified as Mary Lou when she is recognized.

“Step on it, Brittany.” 1:27 · “What's that? Well, it looks like a dame. Wait, maybe it's a stick-up. Yeah, maybe they're hiding in the bushes with guns. Yeah, but we can't leave her laying there in the road. All right, brave man. You step out and pick her up.” 1:58 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 1:54 (passage 1:10–2:39); US record: No renewal found

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