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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 76 · permalink

Private office

38:48–39:15 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:0239:02

Play from 38:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 42 · shots 133–133. 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 dark hair, wearing a dark dress with a light collar, seated visible, audible
Also said
“Suppose you come along and we'll see what can be done.” 38:54 · “Well, I don't think... Oh, but...” 38:57
Seen
dark dress with light collar [frame:1], dark background curtain [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and hesitant; themes: legal consultation, social invitation, hesitation; style notes: close-up shot, low-key lighting, static framing

A woman is shown in a dimly lit interior, speaking about having dinner with her lawyer and inviting someone to join. No names are mentioned, and no other people or objects are visible in the frame.

“Well, that's easily fixed up.” 38:49 · “I'm having dinner tonight with my lawyer.” 38:51 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 39:02 (passage 38:48–39:15); US record: No renewal found

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