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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 42 · permalink

Private office

22:41–23:06 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:5422:54

Play from 22:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 72–72. 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:1
People
  • Bill (named at t:22:42): man in dark suit, fedora, mustache, medium build visible, audible
  • Freddy (named at t:22:45): man in dark suit, no hat, clean-shaven, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • One man demonstrates how he should have thrown a punch. [frame:1]
Also said
“Besides, you got me into this, and if you let Nick handle it, he'd have socked the good and proper.” 22:48 · “I didn't hit her hard enough.” 22:55
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], wall sconce light [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, blame, masculine posturing; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

Two men in suits converse in an interior setting; one gestures while speaking. The transcript indicates a discussion about someone named Freddy and an incident involving a punch.

“You're mistaken, Bill.” 22:42 · “Freddy's not the squealing type, are you, Freddy?” 22:45 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 22:54 (passage 22:41–23:06); US record: No renewal found

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