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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 67 · permalink

Betting parlor

34:27–34:36 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:2934:29Frame at 34:3234:32Frame at 34:3434:34

Play from 34:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 38 · shots 108–110. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
betting_parlor (other, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in suit and fedora, medium build, appears mid-30s visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing in group, partially visible visible
  • woman in dark dress and hat, dancing or moving quickly visible
  • man in suit, standing near counter visible
Seen happening
  • Horses are racing on a track with spectators in the background. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit and hat looks upward with a concerned expression. [frame:2]
  • A group of men in suits stand in a room with a counter; one woman moves quickly among them. [frame:3]
Seen
horse race track, starting gate, gazebo-style roof, counter with telephone, fedora hats, suits
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: gambling, racing, anxiety; style notes: high-angle shot of race, medium close-up on anxious face, wide shot of group in interior; black and white, studio lighting

A horse race is shown from a high angle, followed by a close-up of a man in a suit and hat looking concerned, then a wider shot of a group of men in suits in what appears to be a betting parlor or office. A line from the transcript refers to a 'Gallant babe' getting away to a bad start, likely describing a horse.

“Gallant babe gets away to a bad start.” 34:31 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 34:29 (passage 34:27–34:36); US record: No renewal found

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