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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 22 · permalink

Living room

9:34–9:41 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 9:379:37

Play from 9:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 32–32. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a robe, standing with back partially turned visible
  • woman in light-colored undergarments, standing near center visible
  • woman in dark top and light undergarments, standing with hands on hips visible
  • woman in light undergarments, standing with arms slightly raised visible
Seen
sofa [frame:1], round table [frame:1], cushioned chair [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or confrontational; themes: gender roles, domestic space, costume as social marker; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, staged composition typical of 1930s studio production

Four women stand in a dimly lit room with furniture including a sofa and a table; one woman wears a robe while others wear undergarments. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 9:37 (passage 9:34–9:41); US record: No renewal found

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