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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 126 · permalink

Private office

54:23–54:43 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:2554:25Frame at 54:3254:32Frame at 54:3554:35Frame at 54:4154:41

Play from 54:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 199–204. 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
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and light shirt, bending over visible
  • man lying on floor, face up, wearing dark clothes visible
  • silhouetted figure wearing a hat, standing in doorway visible
  • silhouetted figure wearing a hat, standing in doorway visible
  • person wearing dark pants and shoes, walking past rug visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat leans over another man lying on the floor. [frame:1]
  • Two silhouetted figures stand in a dark doorway. [frame:2]
  • A person walks past a rug on the floor. [frame:3]
  • View from inside a wooden structure looking out to a bright outdoor scene with a horse visible. [frame:4]
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], wooden bench [frame:1], rug with diamond pattern [frame:3], wooden structure interior [frame:4], horse [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, western setting, interior vs exterior; style notes: high-contrast black and white, use of silhouettes and deep shadows, static framing

A man in a cowboy hat leans over another man lying on the floor inside a wooden building; later, two silhouetted figures stand in a dark doorway, and a person walks past a rug on the floor. The final frame shows a view from inside a wooden structure looking out to a bright outdoor scene with a horse visible.

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 54:25 (passage 54:23–54:43); US record: No renewal found

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