Field
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: period without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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.
Play from 36:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 327–328. 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
- People
- J.B. (named at t:36:57): man wearing cowboy hat, dark jacket with fringe, light pants, belt with gun holster visible, audible
- Mac (named at t:37:06): man wearing cowboy hat, plaid shirt, light pants, belt visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The men stand facing each other in a rocky outdoor area. [frame:1]
- The men remain standing, with one gesturing slightly. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Probably tumble down on our heads any minute.” 37:04 · “I'm afraid that's the least of our worries now, Mac. Come on, break it up.” 37:06
- Seen
- cowboy hats [frame:1], gun holsters [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1], fringed jacket [frame:1], rocky terrain [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pragmatic; themes: frontier danger, interpersonal conflict, historical setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium two-shot, naturalistic lighting, Western costume and setting
Two men in cowboy hats stand in a rocky outdoor setting, speaking about the age and danger of the location. One man urges the other to stop arguing, noting they are not in a director's meeting.
“J.B., November 4th, 1883.” 36:57 · “I bet there hasn't been anybody in the place since.” 37:01 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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