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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 61 · permalink

Private office

30:27–30:43 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:3530:35

Play from 30:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 34 · shots 101–101. 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, smoking cigarette visible
  • man in dark suit, smoking cigarette, standing center visible
  • Nick (named at t:30:29): man in tuxedo with bow tie, standing at desk visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand near a desk, two smoking. [frame:1]
Also said
“That's all.” 30:36 · “How about a drink?” 30:43
Seen
desk [frame:1], cigarettes [frame:1], tuxedo with bow tie [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: money, farewell, social ritual; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, studio set

Three men in formal attire stand near a desk in an interior setting; one offers a drink. The transcript includes farewells and a comment about someone named Nick getting excited over money.

“That don't mean a thing.” 30:27 · “Nick always gets excited when he sees a lot of money.” 30:29 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 30:35 (passage 30:27–30:43); US record: No renewal found

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