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McLintock · Beat 427 · permalink

Desert

1:52:38–1:52:50 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 1:52:401:52:40Frame at 1:52:461:52:46

Play from 1:52:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 271 · shots 979–980. 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
People
  • older man, wearing a dark top hat, long coat, and vest; appears disheveled visible, audible
  • group of riders on horseback, some wearing hats and period Western attire visible
Seen happening
  • A group of riders on horseback moves across a desert landscape. [frame:1]
  • A man in a top hat runs forward, waving a red object. [frame:2]
Also said
“Help!” 112:43 · “Freeze!” 112:45
Seen
red object (possibly a hat or flag) [frame:2], horses [frame:1], top hat [frame:2], long coat and vest [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: confrontation, chaos, Western frontier; style notes: wide shot capturing group movement, medium shot focusing on individual action, natural daylight, Western genre framing

A group of riders on horseback moves across a desert landscape while a man in a top hat runs forward, waving a red object. Shouts including 'Point!', 'Help!', 'Freeze!', and 'Get out!' are heard during the scene.

“Oh.” 112:41 · “Point!” 112:43 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 1:52:40 (passage 1:52:38–1:52:50); US record: No renewal found

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