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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 32 · permalink

Living room

17:07–17:34 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 17:2117:21

Play from 17:07 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 18 · shots 50–50. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark dress and hat, standing visible
  • woman, light blouse, seated at table visible
  • man, dark suit, seated across table visible
Seen
{'item': 'table', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'chairs', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'wall picture', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'vase with flowers', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static medium shot, studio lighting, minimal set design

A woman in dark clothing stands beside a seated woman at a table while a man sits across from them; no dialogue is provided. The setting appears to be an interior room with plain walls and minimal decoration.

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 17:21 (passage 17:07–17:34); US record: No renewal found

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