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Yellowstone · Beat 164 · permalink

Private office

44:47–44:54 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:4944:49Frame at 44:5244:52Frame at 44:5444:54

Play from 44:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 469–471. 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 suit, seated, balding, medium build visible
  • man in suit, standing, dark hair, medium build, being grabbed by lapel visible
  • man in suit, standing, light hair, medium build, grabbing p2's lapel visible
  • man in suit, standing, dark hair, medium build, facing camera near sign visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit grabs another man by the lapel while a third man watches. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit speaks with a tense expression. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit stands in front of a sign that reads 'DONT KILL THE WILD LIFE'. [frame:3]
Seen
suit [frame:1], sign reading 'DONT KILL THE WILD LIFE' [frame:3]
On screen
DONT KILL THE WILD LIFE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, moral accusation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, dramatic lighting emphasizing facial expressions

Three men in suits are shown in a tense indoor confrontation; one man is grabbed by the lapel while another stands near a sign reading 'DONT KILL THE WILD LIFE'. A line of dialogue warns someone to 'look in your own backyard'.

“Take it easy, wise guy. Why don't you look in your own backyard? There he is, looking at you.” 44:48 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 44:49 (passage 44:47–44:54); US record: No renewal found

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