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McLintock · Beat 360 · permalink

Town square

1:34:40–1:34:56 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:34:471:34:47Frame at 1:34:551:34:55

Play from 1:34:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 231 · shots 805–806. 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 suit, holding paper, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • Native American man with braids, dark jacket, mid-adult visible
  • Native American man with black hat, braids, orange scarf, mid-adult visible
  • Native American man with braids, light jacket, mid-adult visible
  • soldiers on horseback in blue uniforms, visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light suit reads from a paper to a crowd. [frame:1]
Also said
“But no warrior can accept it.” 94:49 · “For if he does, he is no longer a man. And when he is no longer a man, he is nothing.” 94:51
Seen
paper, horses, blue uniforms, black hat, braids
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: cultural values, manhood, charity; style notes: wide shot framing a speaker and audience; bright outdoor lighting; period costumes

A man in a light suit reads from a paper while standing before a crowd that includes Native American men in traditional dress; soldiers on horseback are visible in the background. The transcript contains lines about Comanche values regarding charity and manhood.

“It is the Comanche way of life.” 94:40 · “This that the white man calls charity is a fine thing for widows and orphans.” 94:43 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 1:34:47 (passage 1:34:40–1:34:56); US record: No renewal found

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