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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 71 · permalink

Police station

35:33–35:44 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 35:3935:39

Play from 35:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 118–118. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(police station, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing left visible
  • man in police uniform with cap, standing center visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing right visible
Seen
police uniform [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1], door with glass panels [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, procedural; themes: authority, line of inquiry, bureaucratic setting; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting

Three men stand in an interior space; one is in a police uniform, and two wear fedoras. A line identifies one as the 'second man in line.'

“That's in there. Second man in line.” 35:36 · “Just a moment.” 35:43 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 35:39 (passage 35:33–35:44); US record: No renewal found

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