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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 19 · permalink

Private office

9:41–11:37 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:3910:39

Play from 9:41 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 13 · shots 39–39. 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
  • Magpie (named at t:10:30): older man, white hair, wearing plaid shirt and dark vest visible, audible
  • unseen, speaking with authority audible
  • unseen, speaking about the foreman audible
  • unseen, speaking about Fang Wei and Doctor Myfoot audible
  • unseen, speaking about distrust and the 'black beggar' audible
  • unseen, speaking apologetically and requesting money audible
Also said
“Stop babying me. I don't like it. Well, well, I don't trust anyone who does it. That's why I don't trust anyone on this place except that black beggar.” 11:05 · “Very sorry!” 11:16
Seen
man in plaid shirt and vest [frame:1], wooden cabinet or desk [frame:1], shelf with bottles or jars [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and authoritative; themes: authority, distrust, workplace hierarchy; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, dim lighting with strong contrast, static framing

A man in a plaid shirt and vest stands in a dim interior, speaking with authority about posting a guard. Dialogue references a foreman, a doctor named Myfoot, and a character called Magpie, with one speaker expressing distrust and another requesting money.

“Well, here I am, boss. I want no more tomfoolery around here tonight.” 10:16 · “You post a guard and keep it posted till the rangebusters get back here.” 10:26 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 10:39 (passage 9:41–11:37); US record: No renewal found

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