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McLintock · Beat 345 · permalink

Private office

1:30:23–1:30:51 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 1:30:311:30:31Frame at 1:30:391:30:39Frame at 1:30:431:30:43Frame at 1:30:481:30:48

Play from 1:30:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 224 · shots 769–772. 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
  • woman, red patterned dress, reddish hair, standing on stairs visible, audible
  • G.W. (named at t:90:40): man, light-colored suit, tie, standing at bottom of stairs visible, audible
  • man, light nightshirt, white cap, standing beside p4 visible, audible
  • man, brown vest over shirt, standing beside p3 visible, audible
  • Becky (named at t:90:40): woman, light dress, dark hair, standing on stairs visible
Also said
“You spanked my daughter?” 90:34 · “You mean you stood there while that brute beat our daughter? G.W., what's happened to you in the last three years? That a part of our son. Oh, isn't it enough that you've always treated me like a squall without subjecting dear sweet Becky to this crude vulgar way of life? Catherine, you women are always raising hell about one thing when it's something else you're really sore about. Don't you think it's about time you told me what put the burr under your saddle about me?” 90:40
Seen
staircase with black railing [frame:1], wall-mounted clock [frame:1], red glass lamp [frame:2], wooden cabinet [frame:2], wall sconce [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: family conflict, gender roles, parental authority; style notes: medium shots, static framing, warm interior lighting, period costumes

A woman in a red dress confronts a man in a suit on a staircase while two other men in nightclothes stand nearby. The dialogue reveals a dispute over a spanking incident involving a daughter and accusations of changed behavior over three years.

“Mickey, Mickey, what happened?” 90:29 · “He spanked me!” 90:30 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 1:30:31 (passage 1:30:23–1:30:51); US record: No renewal found

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