Bar
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; 6 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 48:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 258–262. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- older man, mustache, dark vest over shirt, cowboy hat, belt with gun visible
- younger man, light shirt, cowboy hat, holding pistol visible
- man in dark hat and coat, back to camera visible
- man seated at table in background visible
- man in light suit and hat, standing near bar visible
- unseen speaker audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a vest and hat stands facing another man holding a pistol. [frame:1]
- Two men stand face to face; one holds a pistol. [frame:2]
- A man in a vest turns away from another man near a table. [frame:3]
- A man in a vest walks past a table while another man watches. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “They assaulted a guard and stole that dynamite from the Kansas Pacific.” 48:26 · “You'll find a third man lying out on the prairie.” 48:30
- Seen
- pistol, cowboy hats, wooden tables and chairs, wall sconce lamp, bar counter
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, law enforcement, Western frontier; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1950s Westerns
Two men in cowboy hats confront each other inside a saloon while others watch; one man holds a pistol. A voice demands the arrest of men who assaulted a guard and stole dynamite from the Kansas Pacific, mentioning a third man lying on the prairie.
“What's the trouble here?” 48:22 · “I want these men arrested.” 48:24 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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