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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 99 · permalink

Bar

55:16–55:52 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; 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 55:3455:34

Play from 55:16 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 60 · shots 164–164. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • overweight man in tuxedo and bow tie, seated or leaning visible, audible
  • slimmer man in tuxedo, standing, gesturing with hands visible, audible
Also said
“Never makes me sick. Mixed drink.” 55:34 · “Camel, camel, camel, camel. Now, now, now.” 55:47
Seen
tuxedos, bow tie, bar counter or bar area
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly tense; themes: social drinking, class distinction, preparation and ritual; style notes: medium two-shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, formal attire suggests evening setting

Two men in tuxedos converse in a dimly lit interior; one orders mixed drinks while the other prepares them. The dialogue includes references to Mr. Murray and a backhander, and the drink preparation involves gin and port wine.

“I need them. I don't mind if I do. Mr. Murray will be home soon. Paul, you take care of them.” 55:16 · “Two straight whiskey. No, no, mixed drink.” 55:27 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 55:34 (passage 55:16–55:52); US record: No renewal found

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