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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 27 · permalink

Private office

13:04–14:08 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:2713:27Frame at 13:5213:52Frame at 14:0114:01

Play from 13:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 39–41. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man, balding, wearing dark suit and tie, crouching visible
  • man, wearing dark suit and tie, standing visible
  • man, wearing light suit with pocket square, standing visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing dark dress with bow visible
  • woman, light hair, wearing patterned dress visible
  • Mary Lou (named at t:13:55): woman, light hair, wearing light dress visible
  • Hal (named at t:13:06): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man crouches on the floor. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand and face each other. [frame:2]
  • Three women sit at a table with papers. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'm down here.” 13:15 · “Well, that's all for tonight, Mary Lou. I think you're catching on pretty good.” 13:55
Seen
suit, tie, lamp, table, papers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: workplace interaction, gender roles, negotiation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests 1930s studio production

A man in a suit crouches on a floor while two other men stand nearby; later, three women sit at a table with papers. Dialogue suggests a conversation about a job and meeting for lunch.

“You better be careful. You know I'm up here. I know you're up there.” 13:06 · “But you don't have to worry, Hal. No, why don't I, huh? Because...” 13:10 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 13:27 (passage 13:04–14:08); US record: No renewal found

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