Other
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; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 5:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 47–50. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in dark suit and hat, visible back and side visible
- bald man in checkered jacket, seen from back visible
- man in striped suit playing piano visible
- tall man in light suit and bowler hat, standing near piano visible
- O'Brien (named at t:6:01): man in checkered jacket and bowler hat, speaking to others visible, audible
- man in dark suit and hat, holding doorframe visible
- man in vest and patterned shirt, standing outside visible
- man in plaid shirt and vest, standing outside visible
- Seen happening
- A crowd is seated in a hall with a piano and a man standing at the front. [frame:1]
- A man in a striped suit plays piano while another man in a light suit stands beside him. [frame:2]
- A man in a checkered jacket speaks to a group near a doorway. [frame:3]
- A group of men in hats and vests stand outside a wooden building. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “This is smaller than Madison Square Garden.” 6:13 · “It sure was. I spoke to him personally.” 6:20
- Seen
- piano, wooden doors, wooden building exterior, hats (bowler and cowboy), checkered jacket
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic and ironic; themes: understatement, small-town ambition, contrast between grand claims and modest reality; style notes: medium shots and close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white, stage-like lighting, period costumes
A man claims a small venue as his headquarters for a major event, while others react to its size and a conversation about a personal encounter. The scene shifts between interior and exterior shots of a wooden building with men in period attire.
“Well, this is my place, O'Brien, the official headquarters for the Battle of the Century.” 6:01 · “Yours?” 6:08 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.
Share
Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.
- Permalink
- always the current cut
- Permalink to this version
- warns if the beats are recut later
- Card image
- https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/three_mesquiteers/b17.png
- Figure for a newsletter or page
- Cite