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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 56 · permalink

Private office

29:09–29:53 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; 3 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 29:2629:26Frame at 29:4529:45Frame at 29:4929:49

Play from 29:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 93–95. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, seated at desk, medium build, mustache visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing, medium build, mustache visible
  • man in tuxedo with bow tie, medium build, mustache, standing visible
Also said
“I didn't even get dirt on me. You see, simple.” 29:34 · “I think the boys have it coming to them.” 29:46
Seen
desk, wall sconce light, framed picture on wall, wastebasket, tuxedo with bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: partnership, reward, criminal enterprise; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast studio lighting, formal attire suggests a serious or criminal context

Two men in suits are in a private office, discussing a successful outcome and payment. A third man in a tuxedo is also present, and dialogue references 'hot-shop partners' and 'the boys' who are experts.

“Well, Jimmy?” 29:10 · “For a couple of hot-shop partners,” 29:12 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 29:26 (passage 29:09–29:53); US record: No renewal found

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