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; 3 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 7:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 18 · shots 66–69. 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 with beard, wearing wide-brimmed hat, plaid shirt, and bandana, holding paper visible
- man in dark cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing center visible
- man in light-colored hat and light shirt, arms crossed visible
- Seen happening
- Three men stand together outdoors, one holding a paper. [frame:1]
- Two men face each other, one speaking with a skeptical expression. [frame:2]
- The man with the paper stands with arms crossed, listening. [frame:3]
- The man in the dark shirt speaks to the man in the light hat. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “That's what I yearn for.” 7:49 · “Ha ha, wake up, fuzzy. You're no dirt farmer. You may look like a groundhog, but you ain't one at heart.” 7:55
- Seen
- paper, horses, cowboy hats
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational with undertones of skepticism; themes: land ownership, rural idealism vs. reality, identity and self-perception; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing focused on character interaction
Three men in cowboy hats stand outdoors near horses, discussing land and farming. One man reads from a paper while another responds with skepticism about farming life.
“Just what I've been looking for.” 7:23 · “I think Fertile Paradise Valley will soon be the garden spot of the West.” 7:29 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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