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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 5 · permalink

Bedroom

3:42–4:15 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; 2 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 3:593:59

Play from 3:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 4 · shots 8–8. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mary Louise (named at t:3:42): young woman, lying in bed, wearing nightgown, light hair visible, audible
  • unseen, likely adult male, voice authoritative audible
Seen happening
  • Mary Louise is lying in bed and being spoken to by someone off-screen. [frame:1]
Also said
“told me that Monday I met with an accident.” 4:02 · “He drove you out of town, is that right?” 4:11
Seen
bed, nightgown
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and vulnerable; themes: abduction, child endangerment, authority interrogation; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A young woman lies in bed and speaks with someone off-screen about being abducted after church. She recounts being approached by a man who claimed her mother needed her, then drove her out of town.

“Mary Louise?” 3:42 · “I was walking home from church and...” 3:59 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 3:59 (passage 3:42–4:15); US record: No renewal found

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