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; 9 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 17:48 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 210–214. 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 blue shirt, holding cards visible
- man in cowboy hat and grey shirt, leaning over table visible
- man in dark cowboy hat, standing in background visible
- man in light shirt and cowboy hat, seated on hay bale visible
- man in cowboy hat, partially visible, seated at table visible
- man in cowboy hat, standing in background near horse visible
- man in cowboy hat, standing in background near railing visible
- man in cowboy hat, seated on hay bale, facing table visible
- man in cowboy hat, seated on hay bale, back to camera visible
- Seen happening
- Men are seated around a table playing cards in a stable. [frame:1]
- A horse stands in the foreground with men visible in the background. [frame:2]
- Men continue playing cards while others watch from hay bales and the background. [frame:3]
- Men remain seated around the card table with horses visible behind a railing. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Oh, I was winning.” 18:20 · “Oh, no wonder you're winning. Trigger's standing there telling you what to play.” 18:22
- Seen
- cards [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], horse [frame:2], hay bales [frame:3], stable railing [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and humorous; themes: cowboy camaraderie, humor through animal involvement, card game as social event; style notes: medium shots, stable interior lighting, group framing around a central activity
A group of men in cowboy hats are gathered in a stable, playing cards around a table while a horse stands nearby. One man is told to stop playing because a horse named Trigger is allegedly helping him win.
“All right, break it up, you guys.” 18:16 · “You too, Trigger.” 18:19 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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