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McLintock · Beat 396 · permalink

Interior with staircase

1:45:29–1:46:01 Registered 1963

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:45:401:45:40Frame at 1:45:561:45:56

Play from 1:45:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 247 · shots 915–916. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
interior with staircase (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a white robe and white bonnet, with a yellow tassel visible, audible
  • man wearing a light-colored suit and bow tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white robe speaks to a man in a light suit. [frame:1]
  • The two men walk up a staircase together. [frame:2]
Also said
“My wife does not understand me. I see me as different than any other man. Come on, I've got to get you upstairs. Get you ready for that big celebration tomorrow.” 105:50
Seen
staircase with dark wood railing [frame:2], wall-mounted sconce with candle [frame:1], armchair with patterned upholstery [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic or farcical, suggested by costume and dialogue; themes: misunderstanding, social roles, preparation for event; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, period costume

A man in a white robe and bonnet speaks to another man in a light suit; they then ascend a staircase. The dialogue references a whiskey bottle, Katie's temper, and a celebration tomorrow.

“Oh, and there you was there. And there that whiskey bottle was there. And Katie's temper being what Katie's temper is, well, there you are.” 105:39 · “Drago old friend, huh?” 105:48 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 1:45:40 (passage 1:45:29–1:46:01); US record: No renewal found

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