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Yellowstone · Beat 74 · permalink

Private office

22:28–22:51 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:3322:33Frame at 22:4022:40Frame at 22:4622:46

Play from 22:28 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 36 · shots 207–209. 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
  • man in dark suit and tie, middle-aged, thinning hair, stern expression visible, audible
  • Foster (named at t:22:51): man in light-colored suit, middle-aged, receding hairline, seated, looking up at p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit confronts another man seated at a desk. [frame:1]
  • The seated man looks up at the standing man, listening intently. [frame:2]
  • The seated man maintains eye contact, appearing tense. [frame:3]
Also said
“And that's why I'm here, Foster, standing right over the plate, waiting for you to pitch.” 22:51
Seen
wood-paneled wall [frame:1], desk [frame:2], suit (dark) [frame:1], suit (light-colored) [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: power dynamics, negotiation under threat, criminal past; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

Two men in suits are in a tense conversation inside a wooden-paneled room; one man, identified as Foster, is being confronted about a deal. The dialogue references San Quentin and a 50-50 arrangement, suggesting a prior agreement or threat.

“You didn't say anything to my daughter about this. Come on, come on. Let's get down to business. Now, once I know Mike contacted you with San Quentin, he told you what I'd expect of me.” 22:36 · “He told you as soon as they sprung you, I'd expect to play ball in a 50-50 deal, didn't he? That's right. You know it's right.” 22:45 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 22:33 (passage 22:28–22:51); US record: No renewal found

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