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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 46 · permalink

Shop

23:40–24:01 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:4523:45Frame at 23:5123:51Frame at 23:5723:57

Play from 23:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 78–80. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a cap and dark coat, riding a bicycle visible
  • woman wearing a hat and light coat, standing indoors visible
  • man wearing a fedora and dark suit, standing indoors visible
Seen happening
  • A man rides a bicycle at night. [frame:1]
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in a shop with hats on display. [frame:2]
  • The man and woman continue to face each other in the shop. [frame:3]
Seen
bicycle, hats on display, fedora, cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and constrained; themes: social restriction, romantic tension, class and surveillance; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, period costumes

A man rides a bicycle at night while a man and woman converse in a shop filled with hats. The dialogue references marriage, chaperones, and a boarding house room.

“Hey, why don't you marry the girl?” 23:48 · “There it is again. We never can be ourselves. If we sit in the park, we have a policeman for a chaperone. And in the boarding house, we have four chaperones. Mrs. Smith told me today she had a nice housekeeping room on the top floor.” 23:51 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 23:45 (passage 23:40–24:01); US record: No renewal found

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