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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 79 · permalink

Private office

41:05–41:56 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; 2 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 41:3141:31

Play from 41:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 136–136. 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, wearing a short dark dress, light-colored stockings, heels, and a hat; appears young to middle-aged visible
  • Mr. Murray (named at t:41:35): unseen audible
Seen happening
  • A woman dances in a room with ornate decor. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm getting bored yet.” 41:54 · “Let's go up to my place for a while.” 41:54
Seen
ornate wall paneling [frame:1], floor lamps with globe shades [frame:1], short dark dress [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suggestive, intimate; themes: social interaction, invitation, gratitude; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, theatrical set design

A woman in a short dress and heels dances in a dimly lit room with ornate decor. Dialogue indicates gratitude toward someone named Mr. Murray and a suggestion to go to a private place.

“I'm deeply grateful to you, Mr. Murray.” 41:35 · “Forget it.” 41:35 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 41:31 (passage 41:05–41:56); US record: No renewal found

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