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Mine tunnel

47:30–48:43 Registered 1941

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; 4 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 47:3947:39Frame at 48:0148:01Frame at 48:2848:28

Play from 47:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 174–176. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mine_tunnel (other, interior) evidence: frame:2, frame:3, t:48:00
People
  • Alibi Terhune (named at t:47:38): man wearing a cowboy hat and shirt, medium build, visible in all frames visible, audible
  • Magpie Harper (named at t:47:30): not visible audible, mentioned
  • Elmer (named at t:47:52): not visible mentioned
  • Bill (named at t:47:43): not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • Alibi holds a lantern and looks at a rocky wall. [frame:2]
  • Alibi examines a contraption while holding a lantern. [frame:3]
Also said
“Elmer's feeling awful because he lost his curly locks and good looks.” 48:08 · “I'll get you out of this right away, old boy.” 48:37
Seen
lantern [frame:3], cowboy hat [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], rocky tunnel wall [frame:2, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: rescue, isolation, resourcefulness; style notes: black-and-white, low-key lighting, tight framing on character in confined space, use of lantern for dramatic illumination

A man identifies himself as Alibi Terhune and speaks with Magpie Harper from inside a mine tunnel; he mentions Elmer and finding a way out using a contraption. The setting is dark, rocky, and confined, with one man holding a lantern.

“If that's really you, I'm Alibi. You know me, Alibi Terhune.” 47:38 · “I'm in an old mine tunnel.” 48:00 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 Saddle Mountain Roundup (1941) at 47:39 (passage 47:30–48:43); US record: No renewal found

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