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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 94 · permalink

Private office

53:40–53:57 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 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 53:4953:49

Play from 53:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 158–158. 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 with dark hair, wearing dark dress with ruffled sleeves, visible in frame 1 visible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing dark dress with light belt, visible in frame 1 visible
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to curious; themes: female interaction, visual presentation; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

Two women stand side by side in a dimly lit interior space; one speaks while both are visible. No names are spoken, and no objects or on-screen text are identifiable beyond their attire.

“Now, isn't this a beautiful one?” 53:53 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 53:49 (passage 53:40–53:57); US record: No renewal found

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