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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 71 · permalink

Private office

32:15–32:34 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:1732:17Frame at 32:2232:22Frame at 32:2932:29

Play from 32:15 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 42 · shots 123–125. 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
  • man wearing cowboy hat and light shirt, holding a note visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and light shirt, standing beside p1 visible
  • man with mustache, wearing dark cap and shirt, standing between p1 and p2 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • p1 holds a handwritten note while p2 and p3 look at it [frame:1]
  • close-up of the handwritten note with text about buzzards and money [frame:2]
Also said
“Night bossy, he go got it west.” 32:25 · “Me think he don't want anybody to see.” 32:28
Seen
handwritten note [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:1], dark cap [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: secrecy, conflict over possession, written evidence; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera

Three men in a room examine a handwritten note; one man holds the note while another speaks about it. The note mentions 'buzzards' and 'money' and is marked with an X.

“Where did you get this?” 32:21 · “Me find they on death. When?” 32:23 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 32:17 (passage 32:15–32:34); US record: No renewal found

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