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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; 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 15:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 189–193. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in light cowboy hat, blue shirt, holding child visible
- Roy (named at t:15:50): man in dark cowboy hat, vest, facing p1 visible
- man in dark hat, smiling, behind p1 visible
- child, small, held by p1 visible
- man in cowboy hat, partially visible right visible
- Seen happening
- Man in light hat holds a child while talking to others. [frame:1]
- Man in dark hat speaks to man holding child. [frame:2]
- Man in light hat lifts child slightly while speaking. [frame:3]
- Close-up of a black boot on dirt and straw. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “How old did you say she was? Well, now, let's see. When I left... Oh! Now, she... I don't rightly remember, Roy. Well, you know how we tell the ages of horses, don't you? You mean look at her teeth? Right.” 15:50 · “Why a bull fincher ain't afraid of anything on four legs?” 16:05
- Seen
- cowboy hats [frame:1], child [frame:1], wooden rail [frame:1], black boot [frame:4], dirt and straw floor [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and conversational; themes: family resemblance, rural humor, childhood innocence; style notes: medium shots with warm lighting, focused on character interaction; close-up on boot suggests grounding in rustic setting
Three men in cowboy hats stand in a wooden interior, holding and discussing a small child. One man mentions the child's weight and age, comparing her to a horse, while another notes she is not afraid of mice.
“But it's the first time she ever seen a movie star. I can sure tell she's your relation.” 15:41 · “She weighs a ton. Oh, she ain't so big.” 15:46 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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