Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 3:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 9 · shots 21–26. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:3
- People
- man with dark hair, wearing a brown vest over a dark shirt, seated visible
- man with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, seated visible
- Rootin' Tootin' Rogers (named at t:3:54): man with dark hair, wearing a blue shirt and patterned neckerchief, standing in an office visible
- Seen happening
- Two men are seated and looking off-screen with expressions of surprise or amusement. [frame:1]
- The same two men continue to react; one looks upward with mouth open. [frame:2]
- A man in a cowboy outfit stands in an office, looking off to the side. [frame:3]
- The two seated men are still reacting; one is smiling broadly. [frame:4]
- Seen
- brown vest, blue shirt with neckerchief, office desk and chair, plaid curtain
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and comedic; themes: film production, cowboy movie tropes, audience reaction; style notes: medium close-ups on reacting characters, one wider shot of a character in costume; studio lighting, saturated color
Two men are seated and reacting to something off-screen while a third man in a cowboy outfit is shown in a separate interior setting. The transcript mentions a cowboy character named Rootin' Tootin' Rogers and references film production.
“Long live the king.” 3:51 · “He's here. He's Rootin' Tootin' Rogers, the king of the cowboys, the bravest man upon the silver screen. Whenever there is trouble, there comes Trigger on the devil to lick the villain and then feel the scene. He's got away with women, too. How they cuddle up to him when the director tells them to.” 3:54 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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