Stable
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; 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 17:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 205–209. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- stable (other, interior) evidence: frame:2, frame:4
- People
- man in a light-colored shirt and dark cowboy hat, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
- man in a blue shirt and light cowboy hat, mid-adult, average build visible
- man in a light cowboy hat, mid-adult, average build visible
- man in a dark cowboy hat, mid-adult, average build visible
- man in a light shirt, mid-adult, average build visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a cowboy hat holds a small object and speaks to an animal off-screen. [frame:1]
- A horse is visible behind a metal bar in a stable. [frame:2]
- A small, fluffy animal with a dark body and light head is seen in a dimly lit area with hay. [frame:3]
- A group of men in cowboy hats gather in the stable, one speaking while others listen. [frame:4]
- Seen
- cowboy hat, horse, metal bar, fluffy animal, hay, cowboy hats, wooden wall
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: irritated and weary; themes: loneliness, disturbance, cowboy life; style notes: low-key lighting, close-ups on the man and animal, medium shot of group; stable setting with wooden walls and hay
A man in a cowboy hat speaks to a small animal in a dimly lit stable, then joins a group of men in the same location. The transcript includes lines about being lonesome and needing to sleep, suggesting the man is annoyed by the animal's noise.
“You're a sharp little fella. You better out and yell about until the light. And you always sound so lonesome. It makes me a little bit blue. But I ain't got time for prowling. Or I do a little howling. Ooh, go away, little critter.” 17:24 · “Yelping ain't it helping me to hit the sack. Get along, little varmint. I'll pick me up a stick of nothing. Whack your back. If you don't cut out that yap, how can I get any napping done? So go easy on the screaming while I do a little dreaming about my only one.” 17:44 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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