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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 118 · permalink

Cave or tunnel

52:13–52:36 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 52:1552:15Frame at 52:2752:27

Play from 52:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 188–189. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cave or tunnel (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • Dusty (named at t:52:17): man wearing cowboy hat and light shirt, holding lantern visible
  • Alibi (named at t:52:32): man wearing dark hat and coat, facing p1 visible
  • person with pale face and dark eyes, possibly female, standing between p1 and p2 visible
Also said
“All right, Alibi, we'll keep moving.” 52:32
Seen
lantern [frame:2], cowboy hat [frame:2], dark coat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: survival, urgency, team decision-making; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on characters, high contrast black-and-white cinematography

Three characters, including one named Dusty and another called Alibi, are in a dimly lit interior space, discussing their need to leave and continue moving. One holds a lantern, and they appear to be in a cave or tunnel, with one character expressing concern about catching cold.

“I reckon you know what you're about, Dusty, but speaking for me, I'd like to get out of here. Say, where's that breeze coming from? I'm not able to catch cold in my head.” 52:17 · “This zombie you're waiting for might put off his vest because we all starve to death, which might make it too late to help find Crash.” 52:25 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 52:15 (passage 52:13–52:36); US record: No renewal found

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