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Yellowstone · Beat 229 · permalink

Cave

59:17–59:45 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:2059:20Frame at 59:2759:27Frame at 59:3559:35Frame at 59:4359:43

Play from 59:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 628–635. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cave (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing dark shirt and vest, seen from behind and side visible
  • man, wearing light shirt and dark vest, seen from behind visible
  • Ruth (named at t:59:31): unseen, but voice is heard audible
Seen happening
  • Two men are in a dark cave, one bending over while the other stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • A man turns and gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
  • Two men are surrounded by rising steam or smoke in the cave. [frame:3]
  • A handwritten note addressed to Ruth is shown, frozen under ice. [frame:4]
Also said
“My dearest Ruth.” 59:37 · “That's why the cabin was ransacked. Somebody knew about this. The guy said erupts every 30 minutes. How long have we been in here? I don't know. Your father and this man were caught in that eruption and frozen to death. We've got to get out of here quick. Oh, sure what.” 59:43
Seen
saddle bags [t:59:20], frozen note [frame:4], steam/smoke [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: hidden treasure, dangerous environment, family legacy; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on characters and objects, use of steam/smoke for atmosphere

Two people are in a dark, rocky environment, examining a frozen note addressed to Ruth that reveals the location of hidden money. They discuss the danger of being trapped as a geyser erupts nearby, referencing a past tragedy involving Ruth's father.

“Saddle bags. Who's it?” 59:20 · “A sheet of paper frozen beneath the ice.” 59:33 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 59:20 (passage 59:17–59:45); US record: No renewal found

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