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McLintock · Beat 91 · permalink

Field

24:53–25:28 Registered 1963

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:5524:55Frame at 25:0325:03Frame at 25:1425:14Frame at 25:2525:25

Play from 24:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 62 · shots 190–197. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and hat, middle-aged, medium build visible
  • man in light jacket and hat, middle-aged, medium build visible
  • Macklin (named at t:25:11): Native American man in red shirt and beaded vest, middle-aged, braided hair visible, audible
  • woman in light-colored dress, visible in background visible
  • man in light jacket and hat, smiling, visible in background visible
Also said
“that's right macklin” 25:11 · “Mr. Douglas, I already have plenty of trouble. Please stay over my back.” 25:22
Seen
tents [frame:1], cacti [frame:1], horse [frame:3], hats [frame:1], beaded vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pragmatic; themes: conflict between settlers and Native Americans, logistical challenges of hosting visitors, authority and responsibility; style notes: outdoor wide shots with natural lighting, medium close-ups on characters, clear focus on dialogue-driven interaction

Two men, one in a dark suit and hat and another in a red shirt and beaded vest, stand outdoors near tents and cacti while discussing the arrival of pardoned Indian chiefs and the need to feed them. A third man in a light jacket and hat speaks to them, and a woman is visible in the background.

“They came into town to meet the train. The old Indian chiefs are coming home. I heard they'd been pardoned.” 24:55 · “Could I cut out a couple ahead of your steers to feed them? Otherwise, some of these settlers' milk cows are going to disappear.” 25:06 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 24:55 (passage 24:53–25:28); US record: No renewal found

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