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McLintock · Beat 96 · permalink

Street

27:20–27:42 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:2527:25Frame at 27:3227:32Frame at 27:3827:38

Play from 27:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 62 · shots 212–214. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in grey suit, black bow tie, black hat, older, heavy build visible
  • man in tan jacket, light hat, red bandana, middle-aged, medium build visible
  • man in vest and white shirt, black hat, holding cleaver, Asian, older visible
  • woman in light dress, dark hair, holding child visible
  • child in pink hat visible
  • man in light hat, partially visible behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a vest holds a large cleaver indoors. [frame:2]
Also said
“I tell myself... I may save you the trouble. Oh, Gene.” 27:33 · “You kill yourself, I'll cut off your pigtail, and you ain't never gonna get to heaven.” 27:38
Seen
cleaver [frame:2], black hat [frame:1], tan jacket [frame:1], grey suit [frame:1], pink hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but humorous; themes: retirement, family, threat as joke, Western genre; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period Western costume, indoor shot with studio lighting

A group of people, including a man in a grey suit and a man in a tan jacket, stand outdoors while a man in a vest holds a large cleaver indoors. The dialogue suggests a retirement or farewell conversation involving advice and family.

“I'm not talking about firing you, I'm retiring you! You've been rustling food for us for 30 years.” 27:20 · “We're going to put you out to pasture. All you'll have to do is give advice. Be one of the family.” 27:27 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 27:25 (passage 27:20–27:42); US record: No renewal found

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