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McLintock · Beat 127 · permalink

Private office

40:02–40:23 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; 4 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 40:0740:07Frame at 40:1840:18

Play from 40:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 313–314. 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 with gray hair and mustache, wearing vest and white shirt visible, audible
  • man with dark hair, wearing brown jacket visible
  • man with gray hair, wearing dark vest and white shirt, back to camera visible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing green dress and yellow hat, reclining visible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a chessboard; one stands behind them; a woman reclines nearby. [frame:1]
  • A man holds up an oil lamp and looks at it. [frame:2]
Also said
“Well, looks like I won't have to come into town always to get a game.” 40:08 · “Sure move. Yes, sir.” 40:19
Seen
chessboard, oil lamp, painting on wall, wooden chair, green dress, yellow hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: leisure, social interaction, domestic setting; style notes: medium shots, indoor lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men play chess at a table while a third man stands nearby; a woman in a green dress reclines in a chair. A man with a mustache holds up an oil lamp, looking at it.

“Pretty good.” 40:05 · “Fair?” 40:07 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 40:07 (passage 40:02–40:23); US record: No renewal found

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