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Yellowstone · Beat 157 · permalink

Private office

41:03–42:02 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; 3 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 41:0441:04Frame at 41:1241:12Frame at 41:4841:48Frame at 42:0142:01

Play from 41:03 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 79 · shots 427–437. 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 in dark shirt and neckerchief, standing, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • man in suit, seated, mid-adult, heavier build visible, audible
  • man in suit, seated, mid-adult, average build, seen from behind or side visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark shirt stands and speaks to two seated men at a table. [frame:1]
  • The standing man and one seated man face each other in conversation. [frame:2]
  • The standing man gestures while speaking to the seated men. [frame:3]
  • A close-up shows the seated man in a suit listening intently. [frame:4]
Also said
“He was heading for Jackson Hole. And I say... Steve, but the force came back alone. That's right, isn't it? I told you so once. Your satin and blankets were dripping wet. How'd they get wet? That's what we want to know. And water more likely.” 41:27 · “But you see, Chief, I think... We don't care what you think. Only what you know. You know anything.” 41:50
Seen
wooden table [frame:1], wooden chairs [frame:1], stone fireplace [frame:1], suit [frame:4], dark shirt and neckerchief [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and interrogative; themes: interrogation, memory and testimony, conflict over narrative control; style notes: medium shots and close-ups in a dimly lit interior; high-contrast lighting emphasizes faces and dialogue; static camera framing focuses on character interaction

Three men are in a rustic interior, discussing a past event involving someone heading to Jackson Hole; one man stands while speaking, another listens seated, and a third is partially visible. The dialogue includes questions about a person's attitude, destination, and wet blankets, with a dispute over who is telling the story.

“You know, I recollect when it built them tables, that was in the spring years ago. Never mind this table, what the cost is that of you?” 41:05 · “Attitude? Yes, attitude. What was he like? Well, he seemed kind of crutchy like. He was in a terrible hurry. Oh, he was in a hurry, eh? Where was he heading?” 41:11 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 41:04 (passage 41:03–42:02); US record: No renewal found

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