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McLintock · Beat 372 · permalink

Street

1:37:38–1:38:12 Registered 1963

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: period without evidence, time_of_day without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:37:421:37:42Frame at 1:37:571:37:57Frame at 1:38:101:38:10

Play from 1:37:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 236 · shots 842–844. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored suit, cowboy hat, and tie, standing and speaking visible, audible
  • older man with white beard, wearing a dark top hat and patterned coat, listening visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other on a street at night. [frame:1]
  • The man in the light suit gestures while speaking to the older man. [frame:2]
  • The man in the light suit continues speaking, leaning slightly forward. [frame:3]
Also said
“That's live ammunition in that boxcar.” 98:02 · “You know what'll happen if them Indians get some guns in their hands? Somebody's going to get hurt.” 98:05
Seen
barber shop sign [frame:2], dentist sign [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:1], top hat [frame:2]
On screen
[{'text': 'BARBER SHOP', 'evidence': 'frame:2'}, {'text': 'DENTIST', 'evidence': 'frame:2'}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict over arms, government oversight, frontier justice; style notes: low-key night lighting, medium close-ups, period Western costume and signage

Two men in cowboy hats and period attire converse at night outside a building with visible signage. One man questions the presence of a boxcar and expresses concern about armed Indians and potential violence.

“Is that boxcar still on the sighting?” 97:41 · “Well, sure, but... But what? I don't like it.” 97:44 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 1:37:42 (passage 1:37:38–1:38:12); US record: No renewal found

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