Private office
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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 12:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 36 · shots 141–143. 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:2
- People
- man wearing a cowboy hat, dark shirt, and neckerchief, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
- man wearing a cowboy hat, light vest over shirt, seated at a desk, appears middle-aged visible
- Seen happening
- The first man reacts with surprise or curiosity. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “What I'm thinking about now is one horse.” 12:48 · “Yeah, but Rogers. Roy Rogers! And the smartest horse in pictures.” 12:50
- Seen
- cowboy hats [frame:1], desk with papers and lamp [frame:2], sign reading 'OFFICE' and 'PURCHASE INVEST' [frame:2], window with outdoor view [frame:2]
- On screen
- OFFICE / PURCHASE INVEST
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly humorous; themes: Western genre, film industry reference, horse as character; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, studio lighting, Western costume design
Two men in cowboy hats are shown in an office setting, one seated at a desk and the other in a chair opposite. The transcript mentions 'Range horses' and 'Roy Rogers', indicating a discussion about horses, possibly in a film context.
“Range horses.” 12:45 · “Well, that's just chicken feed.” 12:46 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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