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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; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:16:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 129 · shots 478–481. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, visible from back in frame:1, facing stage visible
- woman in stage costume with feathered headpiece, light skirt, dark top, standing on stage visible
- man in suit, standing at bar, arms crossed, in frame:2 visible
- man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, facing others at bar in frame:3-4 visible
- Charlie (named at t:76:57): man in suit, standing near bar, speaking in frame:3-4 visible, audible
- man in apron, standing behind bar in frame:3-4 visible
- man in apron, standing behind bar in frame:3-4 visible
- Mike (named at t:76:57): man in suit, standing near bar, speaking in frame:3-4 visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a cowboy hat watches a woman on stage. [frame:1]
- A woman in costume stands on stage facing a crowd in a saloon. [frame:2]
- A man in a suit confronts a man in a cowboy hat at the bar. [frame:3]
- The confrontation continues with others watching. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Grab him, boys. Look out there!” 76:51 · “Mike's out, Charlie.” 76:57
- Seen
- stage, cowboy hat, stage costume, bar counter, tables and chairs, apron, bar rail, hanging lamp
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: power struggle, performance vs reality, confrontation in public space; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, stage lighting on performer, dim ambient lighting in saloon, static camera
A man in a cowboy hat confronts others in a crowded saloon while a woman in a stage costume stands nearby; dialogue indicates a power struggle over the venue. The scene ends with an order to turn out the lights and a warning that someone named Mike is out.
“You sure would have looked nice in a kitchen apron. What do you mean, stopping the show?” 76:39 · “I still own this place and I'll give the orders. That's fair enough. Tell them to turn out the lights.” 76:45 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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