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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; 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 14:46 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 40 · shots 180–185. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man wearing a light-colored cowboy hat and a blue shirt visible
- woman with curly hair, wearing a plaid shirt, being held or supported by others visible
- Roy (named at t:14:54): man with dark hair, wearing a dark shirt and brown vest, holding a hat visible, audible
- man in light-colored shirt and jeans, partially visible behind p3 visible
- Seen happening
- A woman is being held or supported by others while a man in a cowboy hat looks on. [frame:1]
- The woman appears distressed or unconscious as others surround her. [frame:2]
- A man in a vest speaks while holding his hat, looking concerned. [frame:3]
- The man in the vest continues speaking, now looking slightly away. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “She's the new horse trainer. I had to hire her.” 15:09 · “Aunt Clara and Uncle Otto got married right after the First World War, and they had seven kids. Cousin Cookie, I'm sorry. Oh.” 15:13
- Seen
- cowboy hat [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1], brown vest [frame:3], dark hat [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: family relations, unexpected hires, rural or western setting; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, studio lighting with shadows suggesting drama
A man in a cowboy hat and a woman in a plaid shirt are surrounded by others in what appears to be an outdoor or semi-outdoor setting; dialogue reveals the woman is a newly hired horse trainer and a cousin. A man in a vest speaks about family history, mentioning Aunt Clara, Uncle Otto, and seven children.
“Oh, that monster. She must have seen another mouse.” 14:49 · “Well, who is she? Well, now you see, Roy, that's what I was gonna--” 14:54 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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