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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 82 · permalink

Shop

42:58–43:41 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; 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.

Frame at 43:2043:20

Play from 42:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 139–139. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mrs. Harris (named at t:43:13): woman in dark coat, light hair, standing visible, audible
  • Donna (named at t:43:27): woman in light dress, dark hair, holding coat, standing visible, audible
  • man in background, seated, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • Mrs. Harris arrives late at the shop and speaks to Donna. [frame:1]
Also said
“Everything okay? Well, no. Your attorney told Phil to plead guilty.” 43:30 · “Must be more to this case than we figured.” 43:37
Seen
coat, shop counter or display, doorway or entrance
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: legal trouble, workplace pressure, female agency in crisis; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films, characters framed in doorway suggesting transition or confrontation

A woman in a coat speaks with another woman in a shop setting; dialogue reveals concern over a legal case involving Phil and Mr. Murray. The scene includes a brief exchange about a missed customer and a mention of contacting Lennon.

“Don't say that. He's our only hope. I'm going over to the shop tonight to see Mr. Murray. And I'll see what this is all about. Oh, darling, you're wasting your time.” 42:59 · “Mrs. Harris, I'm terribly sorry I was late. I was just over to see Phil. I appreciate your troubles, dear. But you're going to have to snap out of us and take care of your customers or I'll have to get another girl. Is somebody waiting? No, but you just missed one. Donna.” 43:13 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 43:20 (passage 42:58–43:41); US record: No renewal found

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