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20:58–21:51 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; 1 name 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 21:2421:24

Play from 20:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 65–65. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Freddie (named at t:21:47): man in a suit and tie, visible in a newspaper photo visible
Seen happening
  • A newspaper headline identifies a man named Freddie. [frame:1]
  • A newspaper headline mentions Mary Lou identifying someone. [frame:1]
  • A newspaper headline mentions a robbery and fleeing to Canada. [frame:1]
  • A newspaper headline mentions a plan. [frame:1]
Also said
“I guess my manager's going to put me out.” 21:03 · “Hey, there's something wrong here tonight.” 21:47
Seen
newspaper [frame:1]
On screen
MARY LOU IDENTIFIES GOOD LOOKING FREDDIE Robs Canada Flees Plan
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: media exposure, unemployment, suspicion; style notes: static newspaper shot with high-contrast lighting; dialogue suggests interpersonal friction

A newspaper headline identifies a man named Freddie, while dialogue suggests tension over cigarettes and work. No named characters are spoken in the supplied lines, and no visual context beyond the newspaper is provided.

“Have you been finding difficulty in getting work?” 20:58 · “I'm afraid so.” 21:02 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 21:24 (passage 20:58–21:51); US record: No renewal found

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