Field
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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 55:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 325–329. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in cowboy hat and vest, standing beside a horse visible
- man in cowboy hat, holding a book, smiling visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man stands beside a horse in a rocky field. [frame:1]
- A man reads from a book while another man bends down near a horse. [frame:2]
- The man holding the book smiles while speaking to the other man. [frame:3]
- The two men stand near horses, one adjusting the horse's gear. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Oh, brother, this is good writing.” 56:22 · “Then keep it.” 56:30
- Seen
- horse, cowboy hat, book, saddle
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and conversational; themes: Western frontier, literary appreciation, comradery; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume and setting
Two men in cowboy hats stand with horses in a rocky outdoor setting; one reads from a book while the other reacts. They discuss keeping the book, which contains biblical passages, and decide to take it with them.
“Listen to this.” 55:59 · “And Benaniah, the son of Jehoshaphat.” 56:01 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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