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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 96 · permalink

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54:22–54:32 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 54:2754:27

Play from 54:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 160–160. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing light-colored top, visible from side, appears to be striking or grabbing visible
  • wearing dark top, bent over, reacting to physical contact visible
Seen happening
  • One person strikes or grabs another person who is bent over. [frame:1]
Also said
“Ah!” 54:30
Seen
vertical blinds [frame:1], bed or cot [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, physical altercation; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, vertical blinds frame the action

Two people are in a room with vertical blinds; one appears to strike or grab the other, who reacts with pain. No names are spoken, and the setting is not clearly identifiable beyond being an interior space.

“And most of them are.” 54:23 · “Ow! Ow! Oh, you rat!” 54:25 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 54:27 (passage 54:22–54:32); US record: No renewal found

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