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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 13 · permalink

Private office

4:44–7:06 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; 2 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 4:484:48Frame at 5:595:59

Play from 4:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 26–27. 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:2
People
  • Magpie (named at t:5:20): older man, white hair, seated, wearing dark coat visible, audible
  • Fang (named at t:4:50): older man, gray hair, standing, wearing dark coat, holding rifle visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands holding a rifle while another sits across from him in a wooden room. [frame:1]
  • The standing man speaks to the seated man, who listens intently. [frame:2]
Also said
“You said I was to be the active head of the partnership.” 5:42 · “It's your funeral magpie.” 7:04
Seen
rifle [frame:2], wooden furniture [frame:2], curtains [frame:2], wall decorations [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: partnership disputes, land and cattle ownership, trust and betrayal; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period Western costume and set design

Two men are in a wooden interior, one standing and holding a rifle, the other seated; they argue about a partnership, fencing, and cattle guarding. One man is called 'Magpie' and mentions 'Blackie' and 'Nancy'; the other is addressed as 'Fang' or 'Fang Wei'.

“Fang! Fang Wei! Fang! Where are you?” 4:50 · “What a deuce of a night to send for a fellow Magpie.” 5:20 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 4:48 (passage 4:44–7:06); US record: No renewal found

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