Jail
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 21:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 154–154. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man wearing dark cowboy hat and patterned shirt, facing right visible
- man wearing light cowboy hat and vest, facing left, leaning on bars visible
- man visible behind jail bars, partially obscured visible
- Mr. Withers (named at t:21:03): unseen speaker audible
- Seen happening
- Two men stand facing each other near jail bars while a third man is visible behind them. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Don't worry, I'll stall him.” 21:13
- Seen
- jail bars [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], patterned shirt [frame:1], vest [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, financial power, imprisonment; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, static framing
Two men in cowboy hats speak near a jail cell while a third man is visible inside. One man says he will stall someone named Mr. Withers, who is described as someone who never cashes a check for less than $500.
“It's Mr. Withers.” 21:03 · “Of all people to show up now... What's the matter with him? Smallpox? Worse. He never cashes a check for less than $500.” 21:04 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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