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McLintock · Beat 479 · permalink

Town square

2:01:36–2:01:55 Registered 1963

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 2:01:412:01:41Frame at 2:01:482:01:48Frame at 2:01:522:01:52Frame at 2:01:542:01:54

Play from 2:01:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 310 · shots 1084–1088. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • Rufus (named at t:121:37): man, middle-aged, wearing a brown coat, green shirt, and hat visible, audible
  • woman, young, wearing a white dress with a corseted bodice and long skirt, red hair visible
  • crowd of townspeople in period Western clothing, including hats and dresses visible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman stand facing each other in a town square surrounded by people. [frame:1]
  • The woman walks away from the man toward a wooden bridge, with the man following. [frame:2]
  • The man and woman walk together across a wooden bridge, followed by townspeople. [frame:3]
  • The woman turns her head back toward the man as she walks away. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden buildings, American flags, horse-drawn carriage, wooden bridge, white dress with corseted bodice
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: romantic conflict, public declaration, Western town life; style notes: wide shots capturing crowd and setting, medium shots for dialogue, bright outdoor lighting, Western costume and set design

A man in a brown coat speaks to a woman in a white dress in a crowded Western town square; she then walks away across a wooden bridge as he follows. The setting includes wooden buildings, American flags, and a crowd of townspeople.

“Yes, Rufus? I regret to inform you I've changed my mind about matrimony.” 121:37 · “Oh, my God.” 121:45 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 2:01:41 (passage 2:01:36–2:01:55); US record: No renewal found

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