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McLintock · Beat 104 · permalink

Private office

30:32–30:59 Registered 1963

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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:3330:33Frame at 30:3830:38Frame at 30:4630:46Frame at 30:5730:57

Play from 30:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 237–243. 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, middle-aged, wearing a blue shirt, brown vest, and red neckerchief, arms crossed then hands on hips visible, audible
  • Mrs. McLintock (named at t:30:53): unseen, but referenced as 'your wife' and 'Mrs. McLintock' mentioned
  • Huck (named at t:30:56): unseen, referred to as 'hired help' and 'Huck' mentioned, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands with arms crossed in a room with ornate furniture. [frame:1]
  • The man shifts to hands on hips as dialogue continues about ignorance and truth. [frame:3]
Also said
“Prominence.” 30:51 · “Mrs. McLintock, where do you want I should...” 30:53
Seen
red lamp, ornate mirror, framed pictures, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: social class, marital tension, servant-master dynamics; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting with warm tones, period costume and set design

A man in a vest stands in a room with ornate furniture while a conversation about social standing and a hired hand named Huck occurs. The dialogue suggests tension between the man and another character, with a third person, Huck, being addressed about placing items in the master bedroom.

“Are you going to stand there with that stupid look on your face while the hired help insults your wife?” 30:36 · “He doesn't know any better than to tell the truth. And I can't help this stupid look. I started acquiring it as you gained in social...” 30:44 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 McLintock (1963) at 30:33 (passage 30:32–30:59); US record: No renewal found

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