Field
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; 2 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 31:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 94 · shots 279–285. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man wearing cowboy hat and patterned shirt, standing near horse visible
- Joseph Lester (named at t:31:43): older man with white hair, wearing dark suit and tie, seated at desk visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a cowboy hat stands beside a horse and wagon in a field. [frame:1]
- A wooden building is on fire with smoke rising. [frame:2]
- The words 'DON'T TESTIFY!' appear on screen over smoke. [frame:3]
- A man in a suit reads papers at a desk. [frame:4]
- Seen
- horse and wagon, burning wooden building, text overlay: 'DON'T TESTIFY!', desk, papers, pen
- On screen
- DON'T TESTIFY!
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, ominous; themes: justice, threat, rural conflict; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, static shots, intertitle used for emphasis
A man in a cowboy hat stands near a horse and wagon outdoors; a wooden building burns; a man in a suit reads papers at a desk. A courtroom is mentioned in the transcript, and a warning 'DON'T TESTIFY!' appears on screen.
“The Special Court of Silver Creek County is now in station.” 31:18 · “Joseph Lester will take the staff.” 31:43 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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