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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 89 · permalink

Restaurant

48:55–50:43 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:4749:47Frame at 50:4150:41

Play from 48:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 149–150. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, seated at table with others visible
  • man in dark suit, facing camera, seated at table visible
  • man in dark suit, seated at table, profile view visible
  • man in dark suit, seated at table, back to camera visible
  • Donna (named at t:50:37): woman with dark hair, wearing light fur coat over dark dress visible
Seen happening
  • Four men sit around a table in a restaurant, discussing a plan. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a fur coat is shown in a close-up, looking surprised. [frame:2]
Also said
“Hello, Donna.” 50:37 · “But Mrs. Harris...” 50:41
Seen
table [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], fur coat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: crime planning, social encounter, gender roles; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots and close-ups, studio lighting

A group of men plan a takeover of a business while a woman in a fur coat is greeted by name in a separate scene. The transcript includes dialogue about a plan involving 'Dutch' and 'Murray and Bell's racket' and a woman being addressed as 'Donna'.

“All right, let's get down to tax.” 49:19 · “Are you in or not? It's pretty tough business, muscling on this Murray and Bell's racket. I'm in. They've been getting that good gravy long enough.” 49:21 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 49:47 (passage 48:55–50:43); US record: No renewal found

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