Yard
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; 6 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 35:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 51 · shots 205–212. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (yard, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- shirtless, young, wearing boxing gloves and shorts visible
- Tommy (named at t:35:54): wearing a light shirt and dark pants, standing, gesturing visible, audible
- shirtless, young, wearing shorts, sitting or lying on ground visible
- Jack (named at t:36:11): wearing a light shirt, standing, later seen holding another man visible, audible
- shirtless, young, wearing shorts, standing with hands on hips visible
- wearing a hat, standing in background visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a light shirt gestures while speaking to a shirtless man sitting on the ground. [frame:1]
- The man in the light shirt stands and points at the shirtless man who is now standing with hands on hips. [frame:2]
- The man in the light shirt demonstrates a boxing move to another shirtless man while others watch. [frame:3]
- The man in the light shirt holds another man from behind as others look on. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “And you jab him in the guts with your left elbow. See?” 36:03 · “Get him out of the yard. What's that light? What's that light? Holy smokes. That guy's really a-- Take it easy. Come on, Jack. Take it easy. Take it easy.” 36:17
- Seen
- boxing gloves, shorts, hat, palm trees
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and escalating; themes: youth, boxing, conflict, authority; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, group framing with focus on interaction
A group of young men are in an outdoor yard, where one demonstrates a boxing move to another while others watch; the scene escalates as someone notices a light and others react with alarm.
“Hey, you saw it, didn't you? We didn't see nothing. Sure, it was a foul. He can't put nothing over on me. As long as the referee sees you, it's a foul. Sure, I know my Marquise of Queen Berry Rolls. Marquise. I cut it out, you bitch.” 35:39 · “May I show you? Here, Tommy, stand up there.” 35:54 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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