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Yellowstone · Beat 154 · permalink

Private office

39:49–40:09 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:5239:52Frame at 40:0040:00Frame at 40:0740:07

Play from 39:49 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 78 · shots 420–422. 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
  • man, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing a dark jacket with insignia and a tie visible, audible
  • woman, young, curly hair, wearing a dark beret and a collared top visible
Also said
“It isn't easy to tell you about it, but you've had enough already.” 40:02 · “But last night, after talking with Mr. Hardigan, I checked on the train.” 40:05
Seen
desk [frame:1], uniformed jacket with insignia [frame:1], beret [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and somber; themes: confession, family history, criminal past; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing

A man in a uniformed jacket speaks earnestly at a desk while a woman in a beret listens. The transcript reveals a discussion about a past criminal gang and a father's imprisonment, with a mention of checking a train after speaking with Mr. Hardigan.

“was a member of the famous Tracy Jenkins gang, a group responsible for a series of bank robberies back in 1918. I told you that for the past 18 years, my father...” 39:50 · “In the penitentiary.” 40:00 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 39:52 (passage 39:49–40:09); US record: No renewal found

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