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Yellowstone · Beat 150 · permalink

Private office

38:13–38:41 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; 7 names 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.

Frame at 38:1938:19Frame at 38:2838:28Frame at 38:3538:35

Play from 38:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 402–404. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat, dark jacket, light shirt, and bow tie visible
  • man wearing a fedora, suit, and holding a coat visible
  • Mr. Foster (named at t:38:28): man in suit standing behind a desk, addressing seated people visible, audible
  • man seated at desk, back to camera visible
  • man seated at desk, side profile visible
  • man seated at desk, facing camera visible
  • Mr. Hartigan (named at t:38:38): man in suit, standing, introduced as private detective mentioned, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat hands an object to a man in a fedora. [frame:1]
  • The two men continue their conversation while holding the object. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit addresses a group seated at a table in a stone-walled room. [frame:3]
Also said
“Good morning. I see you've got everybody out here now. We'll get right to business. Good morning, Mr. Foster. I'm glad you're here.” 38:28 · “Now then, tell me where you were all day yesterday, exactly, and what you did. Who is this man, Mr. Riddell? What right is he to? I should have told you before. Mr. Hartigan is a private detective and was kind enough to offer his services.” 38:38
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], suit [frame:1], desk [frame:3], stone wall [frame:3], object being handed [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: investigation, authority, confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, rustic interior setting

Two men converse in a rustic interior, one handing an object to the other; a third man addresses a group seated at a table in a stone-walled room. A private detective is introduced by name during the dialogue.

“And it's very important to vigil.” 38:18 · “Yes, well, if that's all I've got to do, I'll do it for you later. Much later. Thank you. Here.” 38:21 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 38:19 (passage 38:13–38:41); US record: No renewal found

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