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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 80 · permalink

Restaurant

41:56–42:30 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 42:1342:13

Play from 41:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 45 · shots 137–137. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing dark formal dress with lace collar visible, audible
  • Phil (named at t:42:02): man, mustache, wearing tuxedo with bow tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man sit at a table in a restaurant, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“Why did he do that? Well, I don't know. But he said that from the facts of the case...” 42:29
Seen
wine glass, table, tuxedo with bow tie, dark formal dress with lace collar
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and intimate; themes: legal trouble, romantic concern, social class, personal loyalty; style notes: close-up shot, formal attire, dim lighting with focused illumination on faces, typical of 1930s studio drama

A man and a woman sit at a table in formal attire, discussing a legal matter involving someone named Phil and a lawyer's advice to plead guilty. The conversation references Mr. Murray and Mrs. Harris, and includes an off-screen call for a waiter.

“My heart's wrapped up in Phil. I've been thinking about him all day. I guess you are pretty tired. I think I'd better take you home. Thanks. Waiter.” 42:02 · “Oh, Phil, I saw Mr. Murray last night, a friend of Mrs. Harris's. And his lawyer's going to try and get you out. Oh, he is? Well, he was here this morning, and he told me to plead guilty.” 42:18 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 42:13 (passage 41:56–42:30); US record: No renewal found

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