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McLintock · Beat 60 · permalink

Living room

16:37–17:04 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; 7 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 16:4616:46Frame at 16:5916:59

Play from 16:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 129–130. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and light brown jacket, standing visible, audible
  • man in brown shirt, holding a hat, standing visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair and feathered hat, seated at table visible
  • woman with blonde hair and pink hat, seated at table visible
  • woman with green hat and dark dress, seated at table visible
  • woman with feathered hat, seated at table visible
  • man in background wearing hat and coat, standing near doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat speaks to another man while women sit at a table nearby. [frame:1]
  • The two men continue their conversation, one holding his hat, while women remain seated in the background. [frame:2]
Also said
“The social arbiter.” 16:46 · “Mr. McLennick, I don't want to bother you. I'm sorry, boy. I told you, no job.” 16:54
Seen
cowboy hat, tea set on table, feathered hats on women, framed painting on wall, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: socially tense, with underlying conflict between characters; themes: social hierarchy, return of a notable figure, employment refusal; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, period costumes, formal framing with characters arranged around a table and in conversation

A man in a cowboy hat speaks to another man in a room where women sit at a table; the transcript reveals a conversation about a woman named Katie returning to town. The setting appears to be an indoor social space with period costumes and decor.

“Wonder what he's so preoccupied about. Haven't you heard? No, what?” 16:38 · “Katie's back in town. Katie? Yes, dear.” 16:43 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 16:46 (passage 16:37–17:04); US record: No renewal found

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