Town square
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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 2:03:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 328 · shots 1113–1117. 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:3
- People
- adult woman, curly red hair, wearing a light-colored top and dark pants, climbing a ladder visible
- adult man, wearing a cowboy hat and vest, standing inside near a desk visible
- adult man, gray hair, wearing a purple coat, standing inside facing p2 visible
- Mrs. McClendon (named at t:123:42): adult woman, curly red hair, wearing a light-colored top and dark pants, running in front of a crowd visible, audible
- adult woman, wearing a green dress and green hat, standing on a platform visible
- crowd of adults and children, many wearing cowboy hats, gathered outdoors visible
- Seen happening
- A woman climbs a ladder against the side of a building. [frame:1]
- Two men stand inside a room near a desk and appear to be talking. [frame:2]
- A woman climbs a ladder on a building facade while a crowd watches below. [frame:3]
- A woman in a green dress stands on a platform as another woman runs past her in front of a crowd. [frame:4]
- Seen
- ladder, wooden building facade, desk with drawers, wall clock, crowd of people wearing cowboy hats, platform or wagon, red, white, and blue bunting
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and comedic; themes: public spectacle, gender roles, social embarrassment; style notes: wide outdoor shots with crowd scenes, medium interior shots with warm lighting, costumes suggest Western genre
A woman climbs a ladder outside a building while a crowd watches; inside, two men interact near a desk. A woman in a green dress stands on a platform as another woman runs past her in front of the crowd.
“I'm going to go.” 123:20 · “Oh, Mrs. McClendon, you're all wet. What? What?” 123:42 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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