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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 81 · permalink

Private office

42:30–42:58 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; 1 name 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 42:4442:44

Play from 42:30 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 46 · shots 138–138. 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, mid-20s to 30s, wearing dark coat with fur collar and dark hat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman speaks with a concerned expression. [frame:1]
Also said
“Did he put up the money for the bond?” 42:47 · “Your friend, Mr. Murray, is giving you the runaround.” 42:54
Seen
dark coat with fur collar, dark hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, concerned; themes: legal trouble, deception, personal vulnerability; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, black and white, static framing

A woman in a dark coat and hat speaks in an interior setting. The dialogue suggests a legal situation involving pleading guilty, bond money, and a person named Mr. Murray.

“Didn't look like I had a chance.” 42:34 · “And that if I'd plead guilty, I'd get out in two years and maybe less.” 42:36 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 42:44 (passage 42:30–42:58); US record: No renewal found

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