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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 77 · permalink

Restaurant

39:15–40:30 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 39:5339:53

Play from 39:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 134–134. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in tuxedo, seated left visible
  • woman in evening dress, seated center visible
  • Mr. London (named at t:39:53): man in tuxedo, seated right visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three people are seated at a table in formal attire. [frame:1]
Seen
table lamp, wine glasses, round table with white cloth, decorative ceiling fixture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reassuring; themes: social interaction, reassurance, formal dining; style notes: medium shot, low-key lighting, formal composition

Three people sit at a table in formal wear; one speaks reassuringly about Mr. London handling matters. The setting is dimly lit with a lamp and a decorative ceiling fixture visible.

“Certainly I'm glad to see you cheering up.” 39:50 · “Now you just forget all your worries and leave everything to Mr. London. He'll have fill out in no time. Oh, I hope so.” 39:53 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 39:53 (passage 39:15–40:30); US record: No renewal found

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