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Yellowstone · Beat 175 · permalink

Private office

47:37–48:13 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:3847:38Frame at 47:5147:51Frame at 48:0348:03Frame at 48:1248:12

Play from 47:37 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 85 · shots 495–500. 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
  • older man, mustache, wearing a suit and tie visible, audible
  • Sherwood (named at t:47:46): younger man, dark hair, wearing a uniform with a patch on the sleeve visible, audible
  • man in a suit, standing beside p1 visible
  • woman in dark uniform, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit points his finger while speaking to another man. [frame:1]
  • A man in uniform faces off with the man in the suit, while a woman and another man observe. [frame:2]
  • The man in the suit places his hands on his hips while speaking to the uniformed man. [frame:3]
  • The uniformed man looks down while another man stands close to him. [frame:4]
Also said
“Well, Mr. Foster... And I suppose it's of no importance you were the last man to see Foster alive. But he was murdered. Shot in the bank.” 47:56 · “Take your hands off me. May I examine this gun?” 48:06
Seen
gun [t:47:41], uniform with patch [frame:2], suit and tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority, accountability, suspicion; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots emphasize dialogue and character tension; high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

A man in a suit confronts another man about taking a gun and failing to report a fight, while a third man and a woman observe. The confrontation escalates when the accused is accused of being the last to see Foster alive, who was murdered.

“All I did was take his gun from him. Took him from him.” 47:41 · “Where's that gun now? It's in my quarters, sir. You know regulations, don't you, Sherwood? Yes, sir. Yet you fought with a man who drew a gun and you made no report of it. I'm sorry, sir. It didn't seem so important at the time.” 47:46 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 47:38 (passage 47:37–48:13); US record: No renewal found

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