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McLintock · Beat 338 · permalink

Private office

1:28:31–1:28:53 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; 3 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 1:28:341:28:34Frame at 1:28:411:28:41Frame at 1:28:491:28:49

Play from 1:28:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 220 · shots 748–750. 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 in grey suit, older, standing with hands on hips visible
  • woman in light dress with updo, mid-adult, standing between men visible
  • man in brown vest over shirt, mid-adult, facing others visible, audible
Also said
“Slander. He slandered my honor. He did? I said what I said and I'll stand by it to the death. He admits it, see?” 88:45 · “Shoot him. Well, what is he admitting to? Why, he called me a... I won't even repeat the word. I didn't necessarily call you anything, but I said what I said, and I'll stand by it to the death. Well, just for the tally books, what did you say?” 88:53
Seen
wooden door frame, wall-mounted lamp, statue on pedestal, piano, framed pictures on wall, curtained window, blue table lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: honor, confrontation, verbal escalation; style notes: medium shots, three-person framing, studio lighting with warm tones, period costumes

Three people are in a room; one man is told to shoot another after a dispute over honor. The transcript shows a verbal exchange about slander and standing by statements, with one man refusing to repeat what he said.

“Shoot him, Daddy. Shoot him at once.” 88:32 · “My honor is at stake.” 88:36 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 1:28:34 (passage 1:28:31–1:28:53); US record: No renewal found

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