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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 47 · permalink

Street

24:01–24:28 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:0724:07Frame at 24:1424:14Frame at 24:2224:22

Play from 24:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 24 · shots 81–83. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:3
Time of day
night evidence: frame:3
People
  • woman wearing a hat and light coat, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
  • man wearing a fedora and suit, visible in frame 1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The woman smiles broadly at the camera. [frame:2]
  • A dark street at night with streetlights and car headlights visible. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'll get the license tomorrow.” 24:07
Seen
fedora, hat, streetlights, car headlights
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic and hopeful; themes: marriage, planning for the future, urban night; style notes: close-up framing on faces, high-contrast lighting, transition to wide shot of night street

A man and a woman discuss marriage and obtaining a license, then the scene cuts to a night street view. The dialogue suggests they are planning to marry soon.

“be swell. And if we're married, we can lock the door, can't we?” 24:07 · “You're right, darling. If we don't start now, we'll never get anywhere.” 24:07 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 24:07 (passage 24:01–24:28); US record: No renewal found

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