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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 29 · permalink

Private office

15:41–16:11 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 15:5615:56

Play from 15:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 17 · shots 43–43. 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, adult, medium build, wearing suit, tie, and fedora visible, audible
  • Mr. Smith (named at t:15:47): unseen, presumed to be a receptionist or assistant audible
Also said
“I can give you three o'clock.” 15:54 · “All righty, that's fine.” 16:00
Seen
fedora hat, suit and tie, wall-mounted light fixture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, transactional; themes: appointment scheduling, formal interaction; style notes: close-up shot, studio lighting, static framing, black-and-white film

A man in a suit and fedora is shown in a close-up, speaking with someone off-screen. The transcript indicates he is scheduling an appointment for three o'clock with a person addressed as Mr. Smith.

“Uh, manicure and father.” 15:41 · “Oh, yes, Mr. Smith. Just a moment, I'll see.” 15:47 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 15:56 (passage 15:41–16:11); US record: No renewal found

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