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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 23 · permalink

Living room

9:41–9:50 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:439:43Frame at 9:479:47

Play from 9:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 33–34. 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, frame:2
People
  • silhouetted figure, dark clothing, seen from behind visible
  • silhouetted figure, dark clothing, seen from behind visible
  • person in light-colored dress or robe, standing near furniture visible
Seen happening
  • Two figures walk away from the camera through a room with stairs. [frame:1]
  • A person stands near a table and armchair in a furnished room. [frame:2]
Seen
staircase, round table, armchair, cushioned furniture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: conflict, expulsion, domestic space under duress; style notes: low-key lighting, silhouetted figures, static medium shots, period interior decor

Two figures are seen from behind walking through a dimly lit interior space with stairs and furniture. A second frame shows a person standing near a table and armchair in what appears to be a living room. The transcript includes urgent commands to leave the area.

“Get going! Go look and look at inches of the plate!” 9:41 · “Come on, get out of here.” 9:45 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 9:43 (passage 9:41–9:50); US record: No renewal found

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