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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 16 · permalink

Farm

8:10–8:27 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; 3 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 8:158:15Frame at 8:238:23

Play from 8:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 34–35. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light-colored cowboy hat and light shirt, seen from back visible
  • man wearing dark cowboy hat and light shirt, seen from back visible
  • Crash (named at t:8:24): man wearing dark cowboy hat and dark shirt, holding a cup and a letter visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand at a fence looking at cattle in a corral. [frame:1]
  • A man drinks from a cup while holding a letter near a wooden gate. [frame:2]
Also said
“Hey, Crash.” 8:24 · “Letter for you.” 8:25
Seen
cowboy hats, wooden fence, corral with cattle, cup, letter, wooden gate
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, transactional; themes: ranch life, business dealings, communication via letter; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black and white, outdoor natural lighting, static framing

Two men in cowboy hats stand at a wooden fence overlooking a corral with cattle. A third man in a cowboy hat drinks from a cup near a wooden gate while holding a letter.

“You know, they ought to bring close to $10,000, providing they don't use crooked scales to weigh them in.” 8:15 · “Mm-mm.” 8:21 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 8:15 (passage 8:10–8:27); US record: No renewal found

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