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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 48 · permalink

Street

24:28–25:04 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:4624:46

Play from 24:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 84–84. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • unspecified, lying on ground, wearing dark clothing visible
  • unspecified, off-screen audible
  • unspecified, off-screen audible
Seen happening
  • A person is lying on the ground. [frame:1]
Also said
“Get the police quick.” 24:50 · “Calling car number 21, car number 21, at Olive and Maple. Oh.” 25:00
Seen
person lying on ground, building with lit windows
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: crime, emergency response, urban night; style notes: low-key lighting, static wide shot, high contrast between dark foreground and lit background windows

A person lies motionless on the ground at night while off-screen voices react to sounds and call for police at the intersection of Olive and Maple. No named individuals are identified in the audio or visuals.

“Phil, what was that? Oh, we're interrupted again.” 24:29 · “Sounded like shots.” 24:37 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 24:46 (passage 24:28–25:04); US record: No renewal found

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