Interior: private office, exterior: field
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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 50:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 292–294. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- interior: private_office, exterior: field (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
- People
- man in cowboy hat and vest, standing indoors visible
- man in cowboy hat and shirt, standing indoors visible
- man seated in uniform, indoors visible
- man standing in white shirt, indoors visible
- man on horseback, outdoors visible
- Amy (named at t:50:40): unseen speaker audible
- Doctor (named at t:50:42): unseen speaker audible
- Seen happening
- Two men in cowboy hats stand facing each other indoors. [frame:1]
- A seated man in uniform talks to a standing man in a dim room. [frame:2]
- A man on horseback rides along a dirt path surrounded by trees. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “I sent a message to Matt Brawley and he'll be here pretty quick.” 50:31 · “You will when I get ready to make it, Doctor. Bring on the calls.” 50:42
- Seen
- cowboy hats [frame:1], wooden chair [frame:2], uniform [frame:2], horse [frame:3], dirt path [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: betrayal, confrontation, western justice; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots indoors, long shot outdoors, high contrast lighting
Two men in cowboy attire confront each other indoors while a third man is seen outdoors on a dirt path. Dialogue reveals a betrayal involving smoke signals and an impending arrival of Matt Brawley.
“There goes one of the finest fellows that ever lived.” 50:04 · “Until I found you sending those smoke signals.” 50:19 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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