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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 23 · permalink

Living room

12:19–12:50 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:2212:22Frame at 12:3012:30Frame at 12:3612:36Frame at 12:4412:44

Play from 12:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 44–47. 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:2
People
  • elderly man, white hair, wearing plaid shirt and dark vest visible
Seen happening
  • A black bird pecks at food on a plate on the floor. [frame:1]
  • An elderly man sits in a chair, looking down. [frame:2]
  • The black bird continues to eat from the plate. [frame:3]
  • The elderly man sits at a table with a lit oil lamp and bottles. [frame:4]
Seen
plate with food, black bird, oil lamp, bottles, plaid shirt, dark vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, slightly tense; themes: human-animal interaction, solitude; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film

An elderly man sits at a table while a black bird eats from a plate on the floor. A voice calls the bird a 'black beggar' and suggests it was hungry.

“I guess you were hungry, you black beggar.” 12:21 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 12:22 (passage 12:19–12:50); US record: No renewal found

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