Public Reel

McLintock · Beat 4 · permalink

Farm

2:17–2:33 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:192:19Frame at 2:212:21Frame at 2:262:26Frame at 2:312:31

Play from 2:17 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 4 · shots 8–11. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat, gloves, and a long-sleeved shirt, standing on a wagon visible
  • group of children in varied clothing, some barefoot, standing on dirt ground visible
Seen happening
  • A hat flies off the weather vane. [frame:2]
  • The man stands on the ground near children and a horse-drawn wagon. [frame:4]
  • The man is still on the wagon, holding the reins. [frame:3]
  • The man stands on the wagon in front of a house. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 2:28
Seen
weather vane with dog figure, horse-drawn wagon, brick house with green roof, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mildly comedic or exasperated; themes: rural life, accidental mishap, departure; style notes: wide outdoor shots, bright daylight, clear sky, static framing

A man in a hat and gloves stands on a wagon in front of a house with a weather vane; later, he stands on the ground near children and a horse-drawn wagon. A hat flies off the weather vane during this sequence.

“Lord to goodness.” 2:21 · “not again” 2:23 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from McLintock (1963) at 2:19 (passage 2:17–2:33); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/mclintok_widescreen/b4.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite