Desert
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 3:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 30–33. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
- People
- man in cowboy hat and plaid shirt, carrying a rifle visible
- man in cowboy hat and light shirt, holding a rifle visible
- rider on horseback, distant, wearing cowboy hat visible
- Seen happening
- Two men stand near a sign reading 'KEEP OUT PRIVATE PROPERTY ROBERT WEYLA SILVER CREEK MINING ENTER' [frame:1]
- Two men face away from camera toward a desert landscape with mountains [frame:2]
- A rider on horseback approaches on a dusty trail past saguaro cacti [frame:3]
- The rider continues down the trail, kicking up dust [frame:4]
- Seen
- sign, rifle, horse, saguaro cactus
- On screen
- KEEP OUT PRIVATE PROPERTY ROBERT WEYLA SILVER CREEK MINING ENTER
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: territorial warning, arrival of an outsider, Western frontier; style notes: black-and-white, wide desert shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting
Two men in cowboy hats stand near a 'KEEP OUT' sign in a desert landscape; one carries a rifle. A rider on horseback approaches along a dusty trail, passing saguaro cacti under a clear sky.
“That Martin girl, she's coming this way.” 3:54 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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