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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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 57:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 339–342. 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
- Bill (named at t:57:22): man in light shirt and cowboy hat, medium build, young adult visible, audible
- man in dark shirt and cowboy hat, holding a pistol, medium build, young adult visible, audible
- man in white shirt and tie, mustache, medium build, young adult visible
- man in cowboy hat, partially visible behind p1, wearing light shirt visible
- man in cowboy hat, visible in group shot, light shirt visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a cowboy hat looks forward with a serious expression. [frame:1]
- A group of men, one holding a pistol, stand in a tense circle. [frame:2]
- A man in a dark shirt and cowboy hat looks off to the side. [frame:3]
- The man in the cowboy hat looks forward again, expression unchanged. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “No use of us both dying when one can go free.” 57:19 · “You don't mean that, do you, Bill?” 57:22
- Seen
- cowboy hat, pistol, necktie, cowboy hat, cowboy hat
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, moral choice, cowboy code; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and group shots, high-contrast lighting emphasizing faces, static camera
A man in a cowboy hat is confronted by a group; one man counts to five while threatening hanging. Another man, addressed as 'Bill', is urged not to let both die when one can go free.
“Well, it's either that or you both swing.” 57:04 · “I'll give you till I count to ten.” 57:09 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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