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Yellowstone · Beat 141 · permalink

Living room

35:39–36:00 Registered 1936

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; 2 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.

Frame at 35:4135:41Frame at 35:4635:46Frame at 35:5335:53Frame at 35:5935:59

Play from 35:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 73 · shots 381–386. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, middle-aged, mustache visible, audible
  • woman seated in armchair, wearing patterned dress and shawl, dark hair styled in waves visible
Seen happening
  • Man in hat speaks with intense expression. [frame:1]
  • Man continues speaking, mouth open, eyes wide. [frame:2]
  • Man kneels beside seated woman, holding her hand, speaking to her. [frame:3]
  • Man continues to hold woman's hand while speaking earnestly. [frame:4]
Also said
“Please, sir.” 35:47 · “Say something. Anything. Don't you understand? I want to help you. But try, anyway. For 18 years, every hour of them I waited and waited. Went across the earth and back again to have been with it. And then for one day I found it.” 35:50
Seen
wide-brimmed hat, armchair, wooden door, curtained window, patterned dress, shawl
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: desperation, reunion, waiting, emotional appeal; style notes: close-up framing on faces, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a hat speaks urgently to a woman seated in a chair inside a wooden room; he kneels beside her and holds her hand while speaking. The transcript includes lines about waiting 18 years and pleading for a response.

“Not from the book of them.” 35:39 · “Then how? This man was frozen to death.” 35:41 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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Frame from Yellowstone (1936) at 35:41 (passage 35:39–36:00); US record: No renewal found

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