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Yellowstone · Beat 17 · permalink

Riverbank

4:04–4:25 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:074:07Frame at 4:174:17

Play from 4:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 34–35. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
riverbank (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in uniform with hat, badge visible on sleeve visible, audible
  • Miss Foster (named at t:4:10): woman in white dress with dark bow, light-colored head covering visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two figures stand apart on a riverbank with trees in the background. [frame:1]
  • A man in uniform faces a woman in a white dress; both are in medium shot. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm sorry, I didn't know. Really, I didn't. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” 4:13 · “Am I under arrest? Well, that depends upon your future conduct. Allow me.” 4:19
Seen
uniform, white dress, river, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but restrained; themes: authority vs. individual, rule enforcement, gender roles in uniformed settings; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing emphasizing dialogue

A man in uniform confronts a woman in a white dress near a riverbank; she claims ignorance of a rule after stating she is leaving. The man implies her status depends on her future conduct.

“I'm going to go.” 4:05 · “Sorry, Miss Foster, but you're breaking one of our most stringent rules.” 4:10 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 4:07 (passage 4:04–4:25); US record: No renewal found

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