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McLintock · Beat 50 · permalink

Train station

12:23–12:39 Registered 1963

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:2412:24Frame at 12:2812:28Frame at 12:3512:35

Play from 12:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 113–115. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train station (train, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • older man, bearded, wearing a top hat and patterned shirt under a coat visible
  • younger man, clean-shaven, wearing a light-colored shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A horse-drawn wagon moves down a dusty street in a Western town. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand on a train platform next to a freight car. [frame:2]
  • The two men stand in front of a building with a sign reading 'MCLINTOCK'. [frame:3]
Also said
“Hell, ain't much future being a farmer around these parts.” 12:31
Seen
horse-drawn wagon [frame:1], freight car [frame:2], sign reading 'MCLINTOCK' [frame:3], top hat [frame:3]
On screen
{'value': 'MCLINTOCK', 'evidence': 'frame:3'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: resigned, conversational; themes: frontier life, departure, economic hardship; style notes: wide shots of dusty Western town, medium two-shots on platform, natural daylight

Two men stand on a train platform next to a freight car; one wears a top hat and has a beard. A horse-drawn wagon moves down a dusty street in a Western town.

“I'm going to go.” 12:25 · “Half life, ain't it, Sonny?” 12:28 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 12:24 (passage 12:23–12:39); US record: No renewal found

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