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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 66 · permalink

Racetrack

34:19–34:27 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 34:2334:23

Play from 34:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 107–107. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
racetrack (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • jockeys on horses, wearing racing silks, visible in a line at the starting gate visible
  • spectators in stands, indistinct due to distance and film quality visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • The horses and jockeys are positioned at the starting gate. [frame:1]
Seen
starting gate, horses, jockeys, racetrack, spectator stands
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: racing, anticipation, spectatorship; style notes: wide shot, black-and-white, grainy film quality, static camera

A horse race is underway with jockeys on horses at the starting gate, as spectators watch from stands. A voice says they are at the post, then exclaims 'No!'

“They're at the post.” 34:19 · “No!” 34:21 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 34:23 (passage 34:19–34:27); US record: No renewal found

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