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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 49 · permalink

Street

25:04–26:00 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:3225:32

Play from 25:04 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 25 · shots 85–85. 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
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a dark uniform with a cap, standing near a vehicle visible, audible
  • partially visible, standing beside p1, wearing dark clothing visible
Also said
“Why the fella's dead, right? - What's up there? - How's that? - Can anybody help me? - Get out of the way there, then. - Shut the bar and phone out.” 25:23 · “Yeah, I got it all. Now you get up here right away.” 25:58
Seen
vehicle with headlights on, uniformed cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: emergency response, urban night crime scene; style notes: low-key lighting, night exterior, medium shot framing two figures near a vehicle

Two figures stand near a vehicle with headlights on at night; one appears to be in uniform. A voice orders someone to investigate trouble at Olive and Maple, then notes people running and a death, before instructing to shut the bar and phone out.

“investigate the trouble” 25:04 · “Look, there's some people running.” 25:10 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 25:32 (passage 25:04–26:00); US record: No renewal found

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