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McLintock · Beat 407 · permalink

Town square

1:48:41–1:49:20 Registered 1963

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:48:441:48:44Frame at 1:49:031:49:03

Play from 1:48:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 256 · shots 947–948. 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 dark suit and hat, standing, facing others visible
  • man in red vest and cowboy hat, holding reins visible
  • man in light shirt and apron, holding glass visible
  • King (named at t:108:45): man on horseback, wearing hat and vest, looking up visible
  • man in dark coat, holding megaphone visible
  • man in cowboy hat, standing, facing crowd visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback is visible among a line of cowboys preparing for a race. [frame:2]
Also said
“It's twice around the inside, once around the outside.” 108:53 · “And I caution you boys about some of them eggs, 'cause some of them eggs are last year's holdovers.” 109:01
Seen
megaphone, horses, cowboy hats, reins, wooden wagon wheel
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and competitive; themes: western, community gathering, rural sport; style notes: wide outdoor shots, bright daylight, group composition with central focus on speaker and horseback rider

A group of men in cowboy attire gather outdoors under a clear sky for a horseback egg race, as instructed by a speaker who explains the rules and warns about old eggs. One man on horseback is singled out by name, 'King', while others line up with their horses.

“All right, Professor Birnbaum.” 108:41 · “- Sheriff, where's the horse? - Come on, get 'em all in line. Come here, King.” 108:45 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 1:48:44 (passage 1:48:41–1:49:20); US record: No renewal found

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