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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 6 · permalink

Bedroom

4:15–4:52 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 4:344:34

Play from 4:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 4 · shots 9–9. 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
  • young woman, lying in bed, wearing light-colored nightwear, fair hair visible, audible
  • unseen, voice suggests adult, possibly authority figure audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is shown lying in bed, looking distressed and tearful. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, please don't ask any more questions.” 4:37 · “You said the name of the place was Berry.” 4:44
Seen
bed [frame:1], nightgown [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, anxious, emotionally charged; themes: distress, interrogation, memory, vulnerability; style notes: close-up shot, high-contrast lighting, static camera, focused on facial expression

A young woman lies in bed, visibly distressed, while an off-screen voice presses her to recall the name of a place and a man. She eventually remembers 'Barry Wood' after being prompted.

“Did he say where he was going to take you?” 4:16 · “Oh, I can't remember the name. Try hard to think of the name, child.” 4:26 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 4:34 (passage 4:15–4:52); US record: No renewal found

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