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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 88 · permalink

Living room

45:51–48:55 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; 7 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 47:2347:23

Play from 45:51 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 52 · shots 148–148. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult, likely female, speaking in a conversational tone, possibly middle-aged audible
  • Mark Winnie (named at t:45:59): adult, likely male, speaking in a conversational tone audible
  • adult, likely female, referred to as 'mother', possibly older audible
  • Mary Lou (named at t:47:29): adult, likely female, named Mary Lou, described as 'lovely' audible
  • Hal (named at t:47:45): adult, likely male, named Hal, performing a physical act audible
  • Mrs. Smith (named at t:47:33): adult, likely female, named Mrs. Smith, addressed as 'Mrs. Smith' audible
  • Downie (named at t:47:29): adult, likely female, named Downie, described as 'lovely' audible
Also said
“I'm going out to this place tonight with Mr. Murray for dinner.” 47:13 · “I killed him.” 48:52
Seen
light switch
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial, shifting to darkly comedic before a sudden violent revelation; themes: framing and injustice, investigation, performance as disguise, sudden violence; style notes: dialogue-driven, static framing implied by single frame, low-key lighting in final moment

Two people discuss a framed reporter and a planned dinner with Mr. Murray to gather evidence; later, a woman named Mary Lou and a man named Hal perform a slow comedy act for Mrs. Smith before a dark scene ends with someone saying 'I killed him.'

“Thank you. I was hoping you'd remember me. Yes, of course I do.” 45:52 · “I know exactly how much money he had. We were supposed to be married that day.” 46:05 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 47:23 (passage 45:51–48:55); US record: No renewal found

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