Stable
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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 16:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 198–204. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- stable (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in cowboy hat and shirt, sitting, interacting with a horse visible
- man in cowboy hat, seated with others around a horse visible
- man in cowboy hat, seated, looking at horse visible
- man in cowboy hat, seated, partially visible visible
- Seen happening
- A man pets a horse in a stable. [frame:1]
- Several men in cowboy hats sit around a horse in a stable. [frame:2]
- Men continue sitting around the horse, one holding something small. [frame:3]
- A horse's mane is shown in motion, possibly shaking its head. [frame:4]
- Mentioned
- A cowboy and a coyote are mentioned in a song, with the coyote howling at the moon. [t:16:53]
- The cowboy is said to sing a tune about the coyote. [t:16:53]
- Also said
- “The coyote started howling with his nose pointing to the moon.” 16:53 · “You're a nice little coyote. You prowl around and howl around the moon.” 16:53
- Seen
- horse [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:2], stable fence [frame:1], hay bales [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and narrative; themes: cowboy life, companion animals, folk song narrative; style notes: medium shots, stable interior lighting, group framing around a central horse
A cowboy sits with others in a stable, interacting with a horse; a coyote is mentioned in the song but not shown. The scene is set in a stable with horses and men in cowboy attire.
“A cowboy and a coyote way out on the western prairie.” 16:53 · “The cowboy sat a-smoking and dreaming about his merry.” 16:53 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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