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14:08–15:41 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; 2 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 14:5414:54

Play from 14:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 42–42. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in polka-dot blouse, dark hair, partially visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures toward a woman standing near a staircase. [frame:1]
Also said
“Why not get married?” 14:43 · “Well, the soft hands you have, Miss Lee. You're better to touch you with, Mr. Murray. Why, how much do you need?” 15:04
Seen
staircase railing [frame:1], man's suit [frame:1], woman's polka-dot blouse [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light, conversational with undertones of financial strain; themes: economic insecurity, gender roles, romantic negotiation; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, minimal set design

A man in a suit speaks with a woman in a polka-dot blouse near a staircase; their conversation includes references to jobs, manicures, and marriage. No named characters are identified from dialogue, and the setting appears to be an interior space with minimal decoration.

“Sure, if you want a manicure.” 14:26 · “Oh, you're making a sissy of me.” 14:28 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 14:54 (passage 14:08–15:41); US record: No renewal found

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