Private office
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.
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.
Share
Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

- Permalink
- always the current cut
- Permalink to this version
- warns if the beats are recut later
- Card image
- https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/slave_in_bondage/b78.png
- Figure for a newsletter or page
- Cite
