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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 98 · permalink

Living room

54:52–55:16 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; 5 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 55:0455:04

Play from 54:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 163–163. 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
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing a dark dress with a sash and a decorative belt visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark dress with puffed sleeves and a bow at the waist visible
  • Paul (named at t:55:12): unseen, referenced as 'Paul' mentioned
  • Mr. Murray (named at t:55:02): unseen, referenced as 'Mr. Murray' mentioned
  • Mr. Martulet (named at t:54:55): unseen, referenced as 'Mr. Martulet' mentioned
Also said
“Paul!” 55:12 · “I need them. I don't mind if I do. Mr. Murray will be home soon. Paul, you take care of them.” 55:16
Seen
dark dress with sash [frame:1], dark dress with puffed sleeves and bow [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], table with white cloth [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and socially charged; themes: social interaction, unresolved tension, gender roles in 1930s setting; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, staged interior

Two women are seen in a dimly lit interior, one speaking to the other; dialogue suggests a social gathering and references to Mr. Murray and Paul. No names are established for the visible individuals beyond what is spoken in the transcript.

“There's an oil around here.” 54:52 · “I think I'd better go home. I'll see Mr. Murray tomorrow. Oh, nonsense. Come on, girls. We're going to have a drink.” 55:02 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 55:04 (passage 54:52–55:16); US record: No renewal found

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