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McLintock · Beat 197 · permalink

Bedroom

55:57–56:33 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:0456:04Frame at 56:1556:15Frame at 56:2256:22Frame at 56:3056:30

Play from 55:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 124 · shots 445–448. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a light purple blouse and white apron, likely a maid visible, audible
  • Mrs. McClintick (named at t:56:05): woman with reddish-brown hair, wearing a white nightgown, seated in bed, has a black eye visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A maid places a breakfast tray on a table beside a bed. [frame:1]
  • Mrs. McClintick, in bed, looks toward the maid. [frame:2]
  • The maid gestures while speaking to Mrs. McClintick, who is now sitting up and holding a mirror. [frame:3]
  • The maid stands facing Mrs. McClintick, who is looking at her reflection. [frame:4]
Also said
“You have a black eye. I do.” 56:10 · “There are no men listening now, so we can be ourselves. Oh sure, I let you get away with all that guff the other night.” 56:26
Seen
breakfast tray with teapot and egg [frame:1], bed with wooden headboard [frame:2], red glass lamp [frame:2], mirror [frame:3], wooden dresser [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic, slightly tense; themes: domestic service, female conversation, unresolved conflict; style notes: medium shots, soft interior lighting, staged composition with characters positioned to face each other across the bed

A woman in a maid's uniform serves breakfast to another woman in a bedroom; the seated woman has a black eye and they discuss Becky's return and an unresolved matter. The maid speaks about being able to be themselves now that no men are present.

“One poached egg.” 56:02 · “Toast, lightly browned and un... Why, Mrs. McClintick...” 56:05 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 56:04 (passage 55:57–56:33); US record: No renewal found

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