Public Reel

Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 28 · permalink

Private office

13:40–14:25 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:0314:03

Play from 13:40 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 20 · shots 52–52. 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 with white hair, wearing a plaid shirt and vest visible
Seen happening
  • An elderly man writes on paper at a desk. [frame:1]
Seen
desk [frame:1], paper [frame:1], pen or pencil [frame:1], lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, focused; themes: solitude, documentation; style notes: close-up, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film

An elderly man with white hair writes at a desk in a dimly lit interior. No other people or events are visible or mentioned in this beat.

“where you can find it by...” 14:05 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Saddle Mountain Roundup (1941) at 14:03 (passage 13:40–14:25); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/saddle_mountain_roundup_mp4/b28.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite