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McLintock · Beat 210 · permalink

Desert

1:00:06–1:00:22 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:111:00:11Frame at 1:00:191:00:19

Play from 1:00:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 131 · shots 475–476. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored suit, dark hair, medium build visible
  • man in light gray uniform with cap, standing at attention visible
  • unseen audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands beside a uniformed man next to a freight train. [frame:2]
Also said
“The guardmaster up the junction told me to let him ride, so I locked him in here.” 60:11 · “I've had my scalp a long time.” 60:16
Seen
freight train [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], desert landscape with hills [frame:1], uniform with cap [frame:2], light-colored suit [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, authority vs. individual, Western frontier; style notes: wide shot establishing location, medium two-shot for character interaction, natural daylight, Western genre framing

Two men stand beside a freight train in a desert landscape; one is in civilian clothes, the other in a uniform. A line mentions a guardmaster and locking someone in, and another line refers to keeping a scalp.

“Hey, save me!” 60:06 · “Yeah? Got some. For you.” 60:08 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 1:00:11 (passage 1:00:06–1:00:22); US record: No renewal found

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