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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 63 · permalink

Private office

31:41–32:14 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:5431:54Frame at 32:1032:10

Play from 31:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 103–104. 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, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie, standing with hands on hips visible, audible
  • woman, blonde hair, wearing a dark dress with puffed sleeves, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo stands with hands on hips while a woman sits at a desk. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks toward the camera with a neutral expression. [frame:2]
Also said
“But I think you're fooling around with the wrong girl.” 31:51 · “He's trying to get a newspaper job and he plays the races a little down at Tuffy's booking office.” 32:07
Seen
desk [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], pen [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: class, romantic conflict, professional ambition; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests a studio set

A man in a tuxedo and a woman in a dark dress are in an office-like room; the man speaks about money and fun while the woman listens. The dialogue mentions a man named Miller who is seeking a newspaper job and frequents a booking office.

“I don't know what you're craven about.” 31:42 · “Man's got to have a little fun once in a while.” 31:46 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 31:54 (passage 31:41–32:14); US record: No renewal found

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