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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 5:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 52–54. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, light shirt, dark neckerchief, and belt; medium build visible, audible
- Seen happening
- man leans toward horse [frame:1]
- man touches side of white horse [frame:2]
- man stands upright, hand near mouth [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Never hear nothing, no.” 5:39 · “Don't see a paper, don't even know what's going on. Who's winning what?” 5:41
- Seen
- horse [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], necktie or neckerchief [frame:1], belt with holster [frame:1], rocky terrain [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: isolated, weary; themes: isolation, disconnection from society, frontier life; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume
A man in Western attire is shown near a horse in a rocky outdoor setting, speaking about isolation and lack of news. He is visible across three frames and audible in the transcript lines during this beat.
“I bet if I ever get back to civilization again, I could have no chance to stay there.” 5:30 · “I'm tired of going around these sticks.” 5:36 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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