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Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: name not grounded. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 0:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–1. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Ray Corrigan (named at frame:1): man wearing cowboy hat and shirt, standing beside horse visible
- horse with decorated bridle visible
- Seen
- cowboy hat [frame:1], decorated horse bridle [frame:1], on-screen title card: 'The Three Mesquiteers' [frame:1], on-screen text: 'RAY CORRIGAN' and 'Tucson Smith' [frame:1]
- On screen
- The Three Mesquiteers RAY CORRIGAN Tucson Smith
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, introductory; themes: western genre, character introduction; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, studio-style lighting on subject despite outdoor setting
A man in a cowboy hat stands beside a horse with a decorated bridle; on-screen text identifies him as Ray Corrigan playing Tucson Smith. The film's title card 'The Three Mesquiteers' is visible above.
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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