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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 33 · permalink

Private office

17:34–19:32 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; 8 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 18:3218:32Frame at 19:3219:32

Play from 17:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 51–52. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • woman with short blonde hair, wearing dark dress or suit, seated visible
  • man wearing fedora, suit, and tie, standing or seated, holding small object visible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind p1, later seen near doorway visible
  • woman in light dress, entering room visible
  • Freddy (named at t:18:32): unspecified, mentioned in dialogue mentioned
  • Mr. Murray (named at t:18:55): unspecified, mentioned in dialogue mentioned
  • Donald (named at t:19:00): unspecified, mentioned in dialogue mentioned
  • Miss Perkins (named at t:19:00): unspecified, mentioned in dialogue mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man and woman are seated and conversing. [frame:1]
  • A man stands behind the seated woman and gestures toward the doorway. [frame:2]
  • A woman enters the room as instructed. [frame:2]
Also said
“Donald, will you watch the death until Miss Perkins gets back? Yes, I will.” 19:00 · “Sit down.” 19:29
Seen
fedora hat, suit and tie, dark dress or suit, armchair, doorway, framed picture on wall, small dark object on table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: surveillance, social performance, authority and instruction; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, staged interior

A man and a woman converse in an office-like interior; another man enters and speaks with them. A woman is later seen entering the room as instructed. The dialogue references a person named Freddy and mentions police involvement.

“That thing has identified good-looking Freddy. The police are after him.” 18:32 · “Thanks a million, Mr. Murray. Come in again. Right.” 18:55 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 18:32 (passage 17:34–19:32); US record: No renewal found

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