Field
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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 2:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 14–18. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- man wearing light-colored cowboy hat, light shirt, bandana, and gun belt visible, audible
- man wearing dark hat, patterned shirt, and vest visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man holds a small object near his face. [frame:1]
- Two men sit outdoors; one holds a deck of cards. [frame:2]
- The man in the cowboy hat hands something to the other man. [frame:3]
- A man holds a box labeled 'PLAYING CARDS'. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “No sleight of hand and no card tricks, Savvy. You fellas got me all wrong. This trip is for business. Oh, yeah?” 2:40 · “I'll keep these so you won't be tempted.” 2:53
- Seen
- playing cards [frame:2], box labeled 'PLAYING CARDS' [frame:4], cowboy hat [frame:2], gun belt [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspicion, possession, business versus deception; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume
Two men in Western attire are outdoors; one takes a deck of playing cards from the other while speaking. The dialogue suggests suspicion and a business-related trip.
“Not looking for this, are you? I don't know why we let you live so long.” 2:31 · “When you get the prospect, try and stay out of trouble.” 2:36 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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