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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 43 · permalink

Private office

23:06–23:18 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; 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 23:1223:12

Play from 23:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 73–73. 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
  • man wearing a fedora and dark suit, seen from behind visible
  • man wearing a dark hat, partially visible, being led away visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora stands in an interior space. [frame:1]
  • Another man is led away from the room. [frame:1]
Seen
fedora hat, dark suit, table lamp, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, confinement, obedience; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, backlit figures, period costume

A man in a fedora and suit stands with his back to the camera in a dimly lit interior as another man in a hat is led away; two lines of dialogue are spoken during this beat.

“Come on in, boys.” 23:08 · “Take him away.” 23:10 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 23:12 (passage 23:06–23:18); US record: No renewal found

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