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Yellowstone · Beat 216 · permalink

Forest

56:46–57:06 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 56:4756:47Frame at 56:4956:49Frame at 56:5856:58Frame at 57:0557:05

Play from 56:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 103 · shots 600–604. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(forest, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • Tracy Jenkins (named at t:56:47): man wearing a dark hat and coat, visible in frame:1 and frame:3 visible
  • man wearing a cap and dark coat, visible in frame:2 visible
  • Mr. Genka (named at t:56:59): man in dark clothing, visible in frame:4, crouching or falling visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat confronts another man in a dark outdoor setting. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cap looks alarmed in a dark space. [frame:2]
  • A wider shot shows multiple figures in a canyon, one crouching or falling. [frame:4]
Also said
“It's fools smarter men than you, Mr. Genka. Don't shoot! Don't shoot! I won't shoot! I won't shoot! I won't shoot!” 56:59
Seen
hat, cap, rocky canyon walls
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, identity, fear; style notes: low-key lighting, tight close-ups on faces, abrupt cuts to wider shots for spatial context

Two men confront each other in a dark, rocky outdoor setting; one identifies himself as Tracy Jenkins and mentions 'Ball Jack' before a third man appears and pleads not to be shot. The scene ends with a wider shot showing multiple figures in a canyon-like space.

“Tracy Jenkins was an old friend of mine. Did you ever hear of ball jack?” 56:47 · “Ball Jack. Yes, Mr. Jenkins.” 56:52 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 56:47 (passage 56:46–57:06); US record: No renewal found

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