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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 91 · permalink

Private office

38:58–40:53 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:0039:00Frame at 39:5839:58

Play from 38:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 150–151. 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
  • older man, wearing a cowboy hat and vest, seated, holding a pipe visible, audible
  • man standing, wearing a cowboy hat, light shirt, and gun belt visible, audible
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and checkered shirt, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man sits smoking a pipe while another stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • Three men stand in a room, one placing a hand on another's shoulder. [frame:2]
Also said
“Then I'm going home to bed.” 40:22 · “Fang White said he was going to bed. That means nobody should be in the house, doesn't it?” 40:36
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], gun belt [frame:1], pipe [frame:1], wooden walls with framed pictures [frame:1], lamp [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspenseful; themes: mystery of disappearance, duty versus rest, rural law enforcement; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period Western costumes and props

Two men discuss a missing person and a horse returning without its rider in a wooden interior; one man prepares to leave while another stays to watch the horse. The dialogue references a will reading, a girl named Nancy Henderson, and characters named Crash, Alibi, and Fang White.

“Crashers, he just come open home fetching nothing but an empty saddle.” 39:55 · “First, I'm going to calm my nerves with smoke.” 40:19 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 39:00 (passage 38:58–40:53); US record: No renewal found

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