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Private office

40:30–41:05 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 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 40:4840:48

Play from 40:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 135–135. 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 tuxedo, middle-aged, seated left visible, audible
  • Miss Lee (named at t:40:58): woman with dark hair, wearing evening dress, seated center visible, audible
  • Lennon (named at t:40:48): man in tuxedo, middle-aged, seated right, holding papers visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Lennon hands a retainer to Miss Lee. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'll do everything in my power to help you.” 41:00 · “Good night. Good night. Night.” 41:02
Seen
round table with lamp, wine glasses, papers or briefs, tuxedos
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, somber; themes: legal obligation, professional duty, evening meeting; style notes: static medium shot, low-key lighting, formal attire, studio set

Three people sit at a table in a dimly lit room; one man speaks to a woman named Miss Lee while handing over a retainer. The scene ends with goodbyes as one man prepares to leave to review briefs.

“Here's a retainer, Lennon.” 40:48 · “Now, don't worry, Miss Lee.” 40:58 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 40:48 (passage 40:30–41:05); US record: No renewal found

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