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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 60 · permalink

Private office

29:59–30:27 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:1130:11Frame at 30:2530:25

Play from 29:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 99–100. 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, standing, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit, standing, mid-adult, heavier build visible
  • man in tuxedo with bow tie and pocket square, mustache, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand in a room; one holds papers at a desk. [frame:1]
  • The man in the tuxedo looks directly at the camera with a slight smile. [frame:2]
Also said
“- Ambitious, boss? - Hey, what do you mean?” 30:20 · “Don't let the sight of all this money go to your heads.” 30:24
Seen
desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], papers [frame:1], tuxedo with bow tie [frame:1, frame:2], wall sconce light [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: power dynamics, warning against ambition, wealth and control; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

Three men in formal wear are in a room with a desk and telephone; one speaks about ambition and money. No names are given in the dialogue, and the setting appears to be an interior office or lounge.

“No, I'm not handing out any orchids to you.” 30:14 · “But you boys are going places if you don't get too ambitious.” 30:16 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 30:11 (passage 29:59–30:27); US record: No renewal found

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