Stable
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 28:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 315–319. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- stable (other, interior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- man wearing a cowboy hat and dark shirt, medium build visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a cowboy hat is seen looking off-screen. [frame:1]
- A horse is visible in a stall, with a window showing starry sky. [frame:2]
- The man in the cowboy hat is again visible, still looking. [frame:3]
- The horse is shown again, with the man partially visible in foreground. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Oh!” 29:02
- Seen
- cowboy hat [frame:1], horse [frame:2], stable stall [frame:2], window with starry sky [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, suspenseful; themes: suspense, encounter, nighttime setting; style notes: low-key lighting, close-ups on faces and objects, high contrast between light and shadow
A man in a cowboy hat is visible in dim lighting, looking toward a horse in a stall. The transcript includes exclamations indicating surprise or alarm.
“There he is.” 28:53 · “Oh, my God.” 28:58 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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