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McLintock · Beat 207 · permalink

Town square

59:14–59:38 Registered 1963

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:1859:18Frame at 59:2859:28Frame at 59:3659:36

Play from 59:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 129 · shots 469–471. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light brown coat and cowboy hat visible
  • woman in dark dress and black hat visible
  • man in red fez and dark coat holding brass instrument visible
  • woman in purple dress and large blue hat, gesturing visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, partially visible visible
Also said
“But he had to go to the territorial capital on a horse theft matter. But I'm going to give his speech.” 59:23 · “I'm sure that he can find a bill of sale for the horse.” 59:33
Seen
brass instrument (tuba) [frame:1], large blue hat with ribbon [frame:2], cowboy hat [frame:1], red fez [frame:2], purple dress [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and social; themes: community gathering, absent authority figure, humorous substitution; style notes: medium shots, outdoor daylight, group composition with central speaker, period costume

A man in a cowboy hat and a woman in a dark dress stand near a brass band while a woman in a purple dress and large hat gestures. A speaker mentions the mayor is absent due to a horse theft matter and will deliver his speech instead.

“But now that I've seen how much you've grown, I think we'd better exchange them for a couple of bolts of dress goods, huh? Thank you.” 59:14 · “Oh, the mayor was going to be here.” 59:21 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 59:18 (passage 59:14–59:38); US record: No renewal found

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