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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 27 · permalink

Private office

13:02–13:40 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:2113:21

Play from 13:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 51–51. 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, audible
Also said
“Range busters, buzzards, are trying to get my money before the will is read.” 13:35
Seen
oil lamp, bottles on table, plate with food, wooden door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspicious and tense; themes: inheritance, suspicion, aging, deception; style notes: low-key lighting from a single lamp, medium close-up, black-and-white film grain, static camera

An elderly man in a plaid shirt sits at a table with bottles and a lamp, speaking about poisoned food and others trying to claim his money. The scene is indoors, lit by a single lamp, and includes dialogue about ketchup masking taste and 'Range busters' seeking inheritance.

“Poisoned.” 13:04 · “Ketchup to cover up the taste.” 13:05 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 13:21 (passage 13:02–13:40); US record: No renewal found

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