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Yellowstone · Beat 155 · permalink

Private office

40:09–40:28 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 40:1140:11Frame at 40:1940:19Frame at 40:2640:26

Play from 40:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 78 · shots 423–425. 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
  • woman, dark beret, dark jacket over white collared shirt, mid-20s to 30s visible, audible
  • Partigan (named at t:40:22): man, suit, tie, light hair, mid-30s to 40s visible, audible
  • man, dark uniform with badge, mid-30s to 40s visible
Seen happening
  • A uniformed man enters and leans over the table toward the seated man and woman. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'm sorry I... She's here. Partigan. We'd better wait a while. Let me...” 40:22
Seen
{'item': 'stone fireplace', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wooden table', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'uniform with badge', 'frame': 3}, {'item': 'inkwell and pen', 'frame': 3}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: confrontation, suspicion, interruption; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera

A man and a woman are seated at a table in a rustic interior; the man speaks while the woman listens. A third man enters and leans over the table as the woman reacts, prompting the seated man to suggest waiting.

“The fact is, your father was released just nine days ago.” 40:09 · “And just as we expected he would do, came here to dig up the money.” 40:12 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 40:11 (passage 40:09–40:28); US record: No renewal found

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