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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 147 · permalink

Living room

57:50–58:03 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; 5 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 57:5357:53Frame at 58:0058:00

Play from 57:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 94 · shots 231–232. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in period dress with lace collar, dark hair visible
  • man in cowboy hat and Western shirt, smiling visible
  • man holding a puppet with exaggerated facial features, wearing plaid shirt and vest visible
  • older man with white hair, wearing suit visible
  • man in Western shirt and tie, standing to the right visible
Seen happening
  • Group stands together indoors, some smiling, one holding a puppet. [frame:1]
  • Woman and puppet-holder face each other while another man looks on. [frame:2]
Seen
puppet with large eyes and mouth, framed picture on wall, cowboy hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and concluding; themes: farewell, Western camaraderie, puppet as comic device; style notes: medium group shot with studio lighting; close-up on puppet interaction; static framing

A group of people in Western attire, including one holding a puppet, are gathered indoors and exchange farewells before preparing to leave. One person addresses the group as 'range busters' while urging them to depart.

“But you must all come back soon. Promise? Ah, don't worry. We'll be back. Yes, we certainly will. Woo-hoo!” 57:50 · “Come on, let's get going. Denver bust you, range busters.” 57:58 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 57:53 (passage 57:50–58:03); US record: No renewal found

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