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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 8 · permalink

Private office

5:10–5:27 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:185:18

Play from 5:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 11–11. 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 dark suit, balding, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in light patterned dress, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seen from back, medium build visible
  • man in light suit, partially visible, medium build visible
Also said
“That's all that saved her.” 5:22 · “Did you find out who it was? Get your information from headquarters.” 5:23
Seen
desk lamp, stack of papers, wooden door frame
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: authority, rescue, investigation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests institutional setting

A group of people stand in a dimly lit interior space while one man speaks to a woman; the transcript indicates concern for a girl who fought back and a request for information from headquarters. No names are spoken, and no outdoor or time-of-day cues are visible.

“Your daughter's all right. You can go up there now.” 5:14 · “That little girl's got a lot of nerve. She put up a desperate fight.” 5:18 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 5:18 (passage 5:10–5:27); US record: No renewal found

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