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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 36 · permalink

Private office

19:46–20:21 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:5119:51Frame at 20:0220:02Frame at 20:1320:13Frame at 20:1820:18

Play from 19:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 55–59. 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:2
People
  • woman with light-colored hair, wearing dark dress, seated visible
  • woman with dark hair and hat, wearing light coat, seated visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits down in a chair in an office. [frame:2]
  • A man stands near a desk while two women sit. [frame:2]
  • The seated woman with dark hair leans forward and speaks to the other seated woman. [frame:3]
  • The woman with dark hair holds a pen and paper, smiling. [frame:4]
Also said
“Good morning. How do you do? Sit down. Thanks. Suppose you want to fill out one of those application blanks?” 20:08 · “I filled out plenty of these.” 20:16
Seen
desk [frame:2], chair [frame:2], application blank [frame:4], pen [frame:4], hat [frame:4], picture frame on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and transactional; themes: employment, bureaucracy, gender roles; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, studio set with minimal props

A woman sits in an office and speaks with another woman who offers her work; a man stands nearby. The seated woman fills out an application form while the other woman watches.

“I would like very much to get the job.” 19:52 · “I'll see that you get work. Thank you.” 19:56 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 19:51 (passage 19:46–20:21); US record: No renewal found

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