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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 38 · permalink

Private office

20:32–20:58 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 20:3820:38Frame at 20:4620:46Frame at 20:5320:53

Play from 20:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 62–64. 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 in white uniform, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman with blonde hair, seated, wearing dark coat visible
  • woman in dark dress and beret, holding papers visible
Seen happening
  • A third woman enters and sits down. [frame:3]
Seen
office sign, armchairs, application blank
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and procedural; themes: bureaucracy, intake process, gender roles in office settings; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, minimal set decoration

A woman in a white uniform directs another woman to sit and fill out an application in an office. A third woman in dark clothing enters and sits nearby.

“Right in here.” 20:40 · “- Hello? - How do you do? - Sit down, please. - Just fill out this application blank. - Yes.” 20:42 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 20:38 (passage 20:32–20:58); US record: No renewal found

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