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; 5 names 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 11:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 34 · shots 125–134. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in light-colored pants and dark shirt, holding a rifle visible
- Roy Rogers (named at t:11:23): cowboy in hat and dark jacket, mounted on a rearing horse visible
- man in light shirt and cowboy hat, riding horse, seen from behind visible
- man in wide-brimmed hat and light coat, seen from behind near tree visible
- group of riders on horseback, some in cowboy hats visible
- Seen happening
- A man stands holding a rifle in a field. [frame:1]
- A cowboy on a rearing horse is shown. [frame:2]
- A group of riders on horseback are gathered. [frame:3]
- A man in a hat stands near a tree, seen from behind. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “I've written a movie magazine that Roy wouldn't sell him for a million dollars.” 11:28 · “Yeah, I know that. Get on your horse.” 11:32
- Seen
- rifle, horse, cowboy hat, group of horses, tree
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: western, cowboy, horseback riding, recognition of celebrity; style notes: outdoor western setting, natural lighting, medium to long shots, focus on characters and horses
A man stands holding a rifle in a wooded area, then a cowboy on horseback is shown, followed by a group of riders on horseback, and finally a man in a hat is seen from behind near a tree. A voice identifies one rider as Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger, and mentions a movie magazine.
“Oh, my God.” 11:19 · “Gee, no wonder Ed took a looking. That's Roy Rogers and Trigger.” 11:23 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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