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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 14 · permalink

Private office

7:06–7:53 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:127:12Frame at 7:327:32Frame at 7:497:49

Play from 7:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 9 · shots 28–30. 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
  • elderly man, white hair, wearing plaid shirt and dark vest visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing dark coat, standing visible
  • Fang Wei (named at t:7:13): man with mustache, seated, wearing dark robe visible, audible
  • Langley (named at t:7:18): man with light hair, wearing dark coat, standing visible
  • man with light hair, wearing dark coat, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men gather around a seated man who appears injured. [frame:1]
  • The seated man speaks while others look on. [frame:2]
  • A man with light hair and a mustache looks directly at the camera. [frame:3]
Also said
“Me heard someone coming, me turn to see, me catch some more wood on head.” 7:25 · “What did he look like? Kang Wei no xi face. Xi stars.” 7:38
Seen
wooden walls [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], curtains [frame:2], dark coats [frame:2], plaid shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and inquisitive; themes: injury and assault, questioning and uncertainty, group confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, confined wooden interior

In a wooden interior, several men gather around a seated man who has been injured; one man recounts being struck while turning to see someone approaching. Another man is questioned about the attacker's appearance and clothing, with uncertain replies.

“Somebody tied into Fang Wei. I find him coming to you down by the woodshed. What happened?” 7:13 · “Who did it, Langley?” 7:18 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 7:12 (passage 7:06–7:53); US record: No renewal found

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