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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 24 · permalink

Private office

9:50–10:01 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 9:559:55

Play from 9:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 35–35. 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
  • man wearing fedora hat and overcoat visible
  • man wearing uniform cap and dark jacket visible
Seen
round table with papers and ashtray [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], uniform cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspicious; themes: suspicion, law enforcement, hidden danger; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume

Two men stand in a dimly lit room with furniture; one wears a fedora and overcoat, the other a uniform cap. A line spoken at 9:54 suggests rats have fled, implying a prior alert.

“Hmm, happy, huh?” 9:53 · “Must have been a tip-off. The rats have run to their holes.” 9:54 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 9:55 (passage 9:50–10:01); US record: No renewal found

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