Barn
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; 4 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 14:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 164–168. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- barn (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Cookie (named at t:14:15): woman with curly blonde hair, wearing a dark plaid shirt visible, audible
- man in cowboy hat and light shirt, on horseback visible
- man in dark shirt and cowboy hat, on horseback visible
- man in dark shirt, near a gate inside a barn visible
- Seen happening
- A woman covers her mouth and cries for help. [frame:1]
- Two men on horseback approach a wooden gate with a skull mounted above it. [frame:2]
- The woman is shown again, shouting with an open mouth. [frame:3]
- A man inside a barn raises his arm near a metal gate. [frame:4]
- Seen
- skull mounted on wooden gate, metal gate inside barn, wooden chair and table
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: distress, rural setting, interruption; style notes: medium close-ups on the woman, wide shot of riders approaching, low-angle shot of man at gate; lighting is high-contrast with shadows
A woman cries for help inside a building while a man on horseback approaches an entrance marked with a skull. Another man is seen inside near a gate. The transcript includes a line addressing someone named Cookie.
“Help! Help!” 14:10 · “You got the place looking good, Cookie. Help! Hey, what's up? Help! Help!” 14:15 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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