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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 78 · permalink

Private office

36:38–37:02 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:4036:40Frame at 36:5236:52

Play from 36:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 134–135. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat and light shirt with dark collar visible, audible
  • Fang Wei (named at t:36:59): man with mustache, dark shirt, short hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a wooden room. [frame:1]
  • The man in the cowboy hat looks upward while the other man looks at him. [frame:2]
Also said
“There's devils in there, Fang Wei. We'll keep them locked up for future reference.” 36:59
Seen
cowboy hat, wooden shelf with pottery, wall hanging with indistinct design, lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: supernatural threat, mistrust, confinement; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white, static framing, period Western costume

Two men stand inside a wooden room; one wears a cowboy hat and shirt, the other a dark shirt. They speak about devils and a lamp, with one mentioning Harper and a closet.

“Well, what are you looking at? Nothing. From way carriers. See what happened. What do you expect to happen? Me no no. For she say, "Lem catch them devil." Devil or no devil, it's a funny place to hang a lamp.” 36:40 · “Unless Harper spent a lot of time in that closet.” 36:54 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 36:40 (passage 36:38–37:02); US record: No renewal found

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