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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 26 · permalink

Private office

11:32–13:04 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:1812:18

Play from 11:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 38–38. 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
  • Hal (named at t:11:32): man in dark suit, standing, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing, mid-adult, facing p1 visible, audible
  • woman seated at desk, wearing light blouse, visible in background visible
  • person seated at desk, partially visible, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a room with others seated at desks. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, impetuous youth. Well, what's wrong here, huh? You're waiting till I count three. Why don't you say, Sheldon? One, two, three. Well, jump on three, Hal. Jump.” 12:28 · “Now, what's the matter? What's the matter why it's broken? That's what's the matter. Well, fix it and go up there. Oh, I'll fix it, all right. Okay.” 12:54
Seen
desk [frame:1], chair [frame:1], portrait on wall [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], staircase [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and instructional; themes: authority and obedience, physical coordination, interpersonal conflict; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal interior setting

Two men interact in a room with others seated nearby; one man speaks to another named Hal, giving instructions and reacting to his actions. The scene includes dialogue about physical movement and a broken object, with one man apologizing and another commenting on the situation.

“Ready, Hal? Right. Ho-lee! Hoo! Whoa! Come on, Hal. Hold still. Hal, hold still.” 11:32 · “That's what I want. Come on, Al. Who does that... Al, listen to me. Al, listen to me!” 11:39 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 12:18 (passage 11:32–13:04); US record: No renewal found

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