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McLintock · Beat 505 · permalink

Town square

2:05:00–2:05:20 Registered 1963

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:05:032:05:03Frame at 2:05:112:05:11Frame at 2:05:192:05:19

Play from 2:05:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 332 · shots 1135–1137. 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
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, and vest, carrying a woman over his shoulder visible
  • woman in light-colored dress, being carried, with reddish hair visible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, standing near a woman in purple dress visible
  • woman in purple dress with hat, standing beside p3 visible
  • man in dark coat with red ribbon, standing in crowd visible
  • children and townspeople in period clothing, watching visible
Seen happening
  • A man carries a woman over his shoulder in a town square. [frame:1]
  • The woman is held horizontally, screaming, as bystanders look on. [frame:2]
  • A crowd of townspeople, including children, watches the scene. [frame:3]
Seen
cowboy hat, wooden building facade, red ribbon on coat, fence railing
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: public humiliation, gender dynamics, frontier justice; style notes: wide shots, natural daylight, period costumes, crowd framing to emphasize public spectacle

A man in a cowboy hat carries a woman over his shoulder in a town square while onlookers watch; a line from the transcript suggests a confrontation is escalating. The crowd includes men, women, and children, and the setting appears to be outdoors during the day.

“You've been digging those birds into me for two years. Now you're gonna get your comatins.” 125:15 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 2:05:03 (passage 2:05:00–2:05:20); US record: No renewal found

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