Courtroom
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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 28:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 254–255. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- older man, white hair, wearing dark suit and tie, seated at a desk with papers visible
- older man, white hair, wearing light shirt and dark tie, seated in chair visible
- man in light shirt and dark pants, walking beside a horse visible
- unseen speaker, voice sounds male, mentions 'Miss Shurrie' and court audible
- Seen happening
- A man walks beside a horse near a wooden gate in a hilly, arid landscape. [frame:1]
- Two older men sit facing each other across a desk in a wood-paneled room. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “for what belongs to them.” 28:45 · “Hey, hey, where are you going? You mean you told me I can't see my boss? Not just now, it's the court of law. Okay, look, mister, please, I got troubles. I don't know nothing from court. All I know, I got to see Miss Shurrie. And when I want to see somebody, I see somebody.” 28:47
- Seen
- horse, wooden gate, desk with papers and inkwell, wood-paneled wall
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: law versus personal will, frontier justice, individual determination; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting in interior, natural lighting outdoors
Two men are shown in a courtroom setting, one seated at a desk with papers and the other seated opposite him. A separate outdoor scene shows a man walking beside a horse near a gate in a hilly, arid landscape. A voice in the transcript speaks of law, the American West, and insists on seeing 'Miss Shurrie'.
“Believing in law and order, we aim to settle this peacefully.” 28:36 · “You know, Judge, the Americans who went through the hardships of settling the West?” 28:39 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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