Private office
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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 5 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 6:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
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Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 51–54. 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 in cowboy hat and shirt, playing violin visible
- man in cowboy hat and shirt, playing double bass visible
- man in cowboy hat and shirt, standing with hands on hips visible
- man in suit and tie visible
- man in cowboy hat and shirt, playing guitar visible
- man in cowboy hat and shirt, singing visible, audible
- woman in dark dress visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a cowboy hat plays the violin. [frame:1]
- A man in a cowboy hat plays the double bass. [frame:1]
- A man in a suit speaks with a group of men in cowboy hats. [frame:2]
- A man sings while holding a violin, surrounded by other musicians. [frame:3]
- A man in a cowboy hat looks down thoughtfully. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “It was good for old Bill Cody and it's good enough for me.” 6:47 · “For we are the Maccaro. The open plains, the summer rains, the footy lanes, the wagon trains, where nothing changes, we will live and die.” 6:47
- Seen
- violin, double bass, guitar, cowboy hats, suit and tie
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nostalgic and communal; themes: western identity, musical performance, group solidarity; style notes: medium shots, black-and-white, studio lighting, group framing
A group of men in cowboy hats perform music and interact in an indoor setting. One man sings while others play instruments or listen, and a man in a suit appears to speak with them.
“We are the Maccaro. We rise at the west we love, we'll live evermore.” 6:47 · “A strong horse beneath us as they did long before.” 6:47 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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