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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 69 · permalink

Field

31:22–31:30 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: period without evidence. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:2431:24Frame at 31:2831:28

Play from 31:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 120–121. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat and shirt, holding a puppet-like figure visible, audible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and striped shirt, seated on horse visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt, seated on horse visible
Seen happening
  • Man p1 holds a puppet-like figure and speaks to someone off-screen or to p2/p3. [frame:1]
  • Two men on horseback, p2 and p3, are shown in a field with rocky background. [frame:2]
Seen
puppet-like figure, horses, cowboy hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, Western frontier, performance or deception; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, Western genre framing

Two men on horseback are shown in a rocky outdoor setting; one man holds a puppet-like figure while speaking. The transcript includes a line about being a scout and aiming at a heart, suggesting a confrontation or warning.

“Engines, I've been a scout. That'll show you what'll happen. If I aim at your heart.” 31:23 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 31:24 (passage 31:22–31:30); US record: No renewal found

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