Private office
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; 3 names 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 18:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 146–147. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, and gun belt, leaning on wooden fence visible
- man wearing dark coat and fedora, seated at desk visible, audible
- man wearing light shirt, seated at desk, facing p2 visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in cowboy attire leans on a wooden fence outdoors. [frame:1]
- Two men sit at a desk indoors, one in a fedora, the other in a light shirt, engaged in conversation. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “I'll keep him headed away from the pass now, don't worry. Yes, because if they ever get a smell of that water and stampede for that pass...” 18:48 · “There won't be any of our boys left to tell about it.” 18:56
- Seen
- wooden fence, cowboy hat, gun belt, desk, fedora, inkwell and pen, patterned rug on wall
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: conflict over land/water, ranching economy, threat of violence; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, high contrast lighting
Two men discuss moving cattle away from Owl Pass to prevent a stampede, with one man leaning on a fence outdoors and another seated at a desk indoors. The conversation includes a threat about the consequences if cattle reach the water.
“You've heard what Wiley said. Now take some of them and go to Owl Pass tonight.” 18:26 · “I don't want the cattle to get near that water.” 18:31 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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