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Yellowstone · Beat 18 · permalink

Field

4:25–4:58 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:334:33Frame at 4:444:44Frame at 4:494:49Frame at 4:554:55

Play from 4:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 36–39. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in ranger uniform with hat and badge visible, audible
  • woman in white dress and white hat, holding flowers visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man in ranger uniform stands facing woman holding bouquet. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of handwritten certificate reading 'Dick Sherwood, Old Faithful Ranger Station'. [frame:2]
  • Woman smiles while holding bouquet; man looks at her. [frame:3]
  • Man and woman stand side by side; man adjusts his hat. [frame:4]
Also said
“Our service is unlimited. You are now a graduate botanist with full honors.” 4:36 · “Maybe there's something else I can do for you. You might give me a fishing diploma. Oh, now that is a more difficult course. It demands company.” 4:49
Seen
bouquet of flowers [frame:1], handwritten certificate [frame:2], ranger uniform with badge [frame:1], white dress and hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and playful; themes: humor, romantic banter, outdoor recreation; style notes: medium shots with natural outdoor lighting, static framing, focus on character interaction

A man in a ranger uniform and a woman in a white dress stand outdoors near a river; he presents her with a certificate and a bouquet. The transcript reveals they are joking about her receiving a botany diploma and then a fishing diploma, which he says requires company.

“Flowers are very becoming to you. But I thought you said it was against the law. We believe in giving promising young botanists every opportunity.” 4:26 · “But I'm not a botan.” 4:34 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 4:33 (passage 4:25–4:58); US record: No renewal found

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