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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 59:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 351–355. 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, frame:3
- People
- man in cowboy hat and shirt, visible on horseback visible, audible
- man in wide-brimmed hat, visible on horseback visible
- man in dark hat, visible on horseback visible
- man in light hat, visible on horseback visible
- Seen happening
- A man on horseback walks across rocky terrain. [frame:1]
- Several men on horseback are gathered, some with saddles and ropes visible. [frame:2]
- A wide shot shows a rocky, arid landscape with sparse vegetation. [frame:3]
- Three men on horseback are shown in close-up, one holding reins. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Stop jabbering and let's go. Okay, take it easy, pal.” 59:45 · “You change your mind about shooting if Loretta was with these guys.” 59:53
- Seen
- horse [frame:1, frame:2, frame:4], cowboy hat [frame:2, frame:4], saddle [frame:2], rope [frame:2], rocky terrain [frame:1, frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and contemplative; themes: conflict, moral hesitation, western frontier; style notes: black-and-white, wide landscape shots, medium close-ups on characters, natural lighting
A group of men on horseback are in a rocky, arid landscape. One man speaks about not wanting to shoot people and recalls a past incident, while another urges them to move on.
“You know you're not very pretty, but I like it just the same on account of your head work.” 59:18 · “I hate to shoot people.” 59:34 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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