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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 64 · permalink

Private office

32:14–33:24 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:4932:49

Play from 32:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 105–105. 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
  • woman with light hair in a bun, wearing a dark blouse with puffed sleeves visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman is speaking with an open mouth, appearing surprised or insistent. [frame:1]
Also said
“If any of that hot stuff was found on you, it'd mean a long stretch in the big house.” 32:46 · “I want to bet on Providence. The horse is scratched. Oh, is he hurt badly? Lady, the horse is scratched. Well, I don't care if he's got the itch. I want to bet on Providence. The horse is scratched. He won't run. I want to bet on Providence.” 32:54
Seen
window with panes [frame:1], dark blouse with puffed sleeves [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: crime, money laundering, betting, deception; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A woman speaks in a dimly lit interior while discussing marked money and a bet on a scratched horse. No names are spoken that can be linked to visible individuals.

“Oh, I see.” 32:15 · “We have 20 grand of marked money.” 32:23 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 32:49 (passage 32:14–33:24); US record: No renewal found

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