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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 11 · permalink

Private office

3:49–4:24 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:523:52Frame at 4:044:04Frame at 4:134:13Frame at 4:224:22

Play from 3:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 14–22. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • lower body visible, wearing dark pants and shoes, moving quickly visible
Seen happening
  • A person moves quickly across a room. [frame:2]
  • A person is seen in motion, possibly exiting. [frame:4]
Seen
ornate chair, desk with papers and lamp, wooden door and wall paneling
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and hurried; themes: departure, confrontation; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, rapid motion blur suggesting urgency

A person is seen moving quickly through a dimly lit wooden room, with a chair and desk visible. The transcript includes the lines 'I'm out.' and 'What are you so excited about?' spoken during this sequence.

“I'm out.” 3:50 · “What are you so excited about?” 4:20 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 3:52 (passage 3:49–4:24); US record: No renewal found

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