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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 7 · permalink

Private office

4:52–5:10 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:015:01

Play from 4:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 5 · shots 10–10. 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, back turned, medium build visible
  • man wearing hat, standing near desk visible
  • woman lying in bed, partially covered visible
Also said
“I'll send your mother up to you now.” 4:56 · “*laughs*” 5:06
Seen
bed [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], desk [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confinement, authority, visitation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, confined space

A man in a dark suit stands near a bed where a woman lies, while another man in a hat is visible near a desk. A voice mentions the Berrywood Roadhouse and says the woman's mother will be sent up.

“The Berrywood Roadhouse.” 4:52 · “One of the worst places in the state.” 4:54 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 5:01 (passage 4:52–5:10); US record: No renewal found

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