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Saddle Mountain Roundup · Beat 98 · permalink

Private office

44:17–44:51 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names 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 44:3444:34

Play from 44:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 158–158. 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 a light-colored cowboy hat and shirt, standing, mid-adult visible
  • man wearing a plaid shirt and vest, standing, mid-adult visible
  • man wearing a dark jacket, standing, mid-adult visible
  • man seated, head tilted back, appears asleep, wearing dark clothes visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand and talk while a fourth man sits with his head back, appearing asleep. [frame:1]
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], lanterns on shelf [frame:1], wooden shelves and walls [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: investigation, cowboy culture, team coordination; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period Western costume and set design

Three men stand in a dim interior while one seated man appears asleep; dialogue suggests they are investigating a missing person and plan to search for a horse and contact the sheriff. No names are spoken for the individuals visible.

“Do you know Blackie's horse when you see it? Sure. Well, then go take a look and see if it's still in the stall.” 44:36 · “Red, you write for the sheriff or the rest of us search the place. Come on, will you make it snappy now? Let's hurry up.” 44:40 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 44:34 (passage 44:17–44:51); US record: No renewal found

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