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Yellowstone · Beat 153 · permalink

Private office

39:17–39:49 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:2539:25Frame at 39:3739:37Frame at 39:4639:46Frame at 39:4839:48

Play from 39:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 415–419. 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:1
People
  • Miss Foster (named at t:39:35): woman, wearing dark dress and beret, light hair, young adult visible, audible
  • man, wearing suit and tie, light hair, middle-aged visible, audible
  • man, wearing uniform with badge, standing, entering room visible
Seen happening
  • A third man in uniform enters the room and approaches the desk. [frame:3]
Seen
desk, stone fireplace, uniform with badge, beret
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, inheritance of guilt, official authority; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, studio lighting, formal framing

A man informs a woman that her father stole money from an insurance company, and she reacts with shock. A third man enters the room and approaches the desk where they are seated.

“Well, I had hoped it wouldn't be my task to tell you this. Since it is... Tell me what. I represent the MA's Assurity Company. I've been sent west to recover some 90-odd thousands of dollars that some 18 years ago your father stole.” 39:18 · “How dare you! Why, my father hasn't been in this country for years! Please sit down, Miss Foster. First of all, I'm convinced that you know nothing whatever of your father's death, or for that matter, his life either.” 39:35 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 39:25 (passage 39:17–39:49); US record: No renewal found

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