Field
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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 11–14. 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
- person on horseback, wearing hat and riding gear visible
- Seen happening
- Cattle are being herded across a field. [frame:1]
- A rider on horseback is visible among cattle. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Sweet dreams.” 1:42 · “I've got a horse that knows his way. He never goes wrong. I've got a horse that I can't stop.” 1:44
- Seen
- horse [frame:4], cattle [frame:1], hat [frame:4], brushy terrain [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nostalgic and pastoral; themes: ranch life, connection to land, solitude of cowboy work; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of open landscape, natural lighting, static camera
A person on horseback herds cattle across a dry, brushy landscape. The speaker describes daily life as a buckaroo, mentioning a reliable horse and singing while riding.
“I'm a buckaroo.” 1:30 · “Every day is filled with pieces and cream. Life is like a beautiful prairie dream.” 1:33 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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