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McLintock · Beat 411 · permalink

Desert

1:49:35–1:49:59 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; 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 1:49:401:49:40Frame at 1:49:461:49:46Frame at 1:49:501:49:50Frame at 1:49:561:49:56

Play from 1:49:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 260 · shots 952–955. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
day evidence: frame:1
Period
19th century evidence: t:109:40
People
  • Catherine (named at t:109:35): woman, red curly hair, wearing a yellow period dress with puffed sleeves and lace trim visible, audible
  • Rob (named at t:109:52): man, gray hair, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Catherine and Rob sit in a vehicle and talk. [frame:1]
  • A crowd of people on horseback and in wagons is visible in the background during the celebration. [frame:2]
Also said
“Well, Catherine, I've been here for three days. I haven't heard from you. Is anything wrong?” 109:48 · “Rob?” 109:52
Seen
vehicle, cacti, mountains, crowd, pavilion
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted but with underlying tension; themes: celebration, romantic tension, cultural contrast; style notes: wide shots emphasize landscape and crowd; medium shots focus on character interaction; bright daylight lighting; period costume design

A woman in a yellow dress and a man in a suit sit in a vehicle during a 4th of July celebration in a desert landscape with mountains and cacti. The woman speaks about enjoying the celebration, and the man asks if something is wrong after not hearing from her for three days.

“Catherine, my dear.” 109:35 · “This is wonderful. It's the only thing I really do enjoy about this barbaric country. The 4th of July celebration.” 109:40 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 1:49:40 (passage 1:49:35–1:49:59); US record: No renewal found

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