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McLintock · Beat 121 · permalink

Private office

38:20–38:40 Registered 1963

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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:2538:25Frame at 38:3438:34Frame at 38:3938:39

Play from 38:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 71 · shots 293–295. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, gray hair, mustache, wearing vest and white shirt, seated at chessboard visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing brown vest and red neckerchief, seated at chessboard visible
  • woman, red hair, wearing green suit and large yellow hat, standing visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing brown shirt, standing in background visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing dark suit, standing behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a chessboard while others stand around them. [frame:1]
  • The woman in green speaks to the men at the chessboard. [frame:2]
  • The older man with gray hair points his finger while speaking. [frame:3]
Also said
“Your hair.” 38:38
Seen
chessboard [frame:1], green suit with yellow hat [frame:1], wooden filing cabinet [frame:1], black safe [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: family conflict, stubbornness, negotiation; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static framing focused on character interaction

Two men are seated at a chessboard in a room with others standing around; a woman in a green suit and hat speaks to them. An older man with gray hair and a mustache gestures while speaking.

“It's your move.” 38:20 · “No, it's your move. I just canceled it. Now, look here. You're not going to sit here all night long and play chess when the matter of our daughter remains unsettled. I am going to remain here and play chess when the matter of our daughter is settled. She stays. Oh, such stubbornness. Catherine!” 38:22 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 38:25 (passage 38:20–38:40); US record: No renewal found

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