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Yellowstone · Beat 163 · permalink

Private office

44:17–44:47 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 44:1944:19Frame at 44:2144:21Frame at 44:3944:39Frame at 44:4444:44

Play from 44:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 464–468. 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 a suit and tie, mid-30s, slim build, dark hair visible
  • older man with receding hairline, heavier build, wearing a suit visible
  • man in a suit, visible in profile, mid-30s visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit is physically confronted by another man. [frame:4]
Also said
“We're not saying who planted it, but it was there when we checked in. Where was it when Puster was killed? In your hand? Or in his?” 44:37
Seen
handkerchief [t:44:19], suit [frame:1], wooden wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspicion, confrontation, evidence; style notes: medium close-ups, static camera, high-contrast lighting, period costume

A man in a suit is confronted by others in a rustic interior; dialogue suggests a handkerchief was found and its origin is disputed. The setting appears to be a wooden-walled room, and the conversation implies a prior event involving a dance and a death.

“Listen, wise guy. I saw him drop that handkerchief when he was dancing with the lady. Yes, I remember now. I missed it right after the dance.” 44:19 · “And I suppose Miss Foster picked it up and kept it for a souvenir. Well, I...” 44:30 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 44:19 (passage 44:17–44:47); US record: No renewal found

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