Field
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 2:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 6 · shots 19–22. 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
- cowboy, wearing hat and riding gear, on horseback visible
- cowboy, wearing hat and riding gear, on horseback visible
- cowboy, wearing hat and riding gear, on horseback visible
- Seen happening
- Cattle are walking through a field with mountains in the background. [frame:1]
- A cowboy on horseback is visible behind cattle. [frame:2]
- Cowboys on horseback herd cattle near a river. [frame:3]
- Cowboys on horseback continue to herd cattle near a river. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “If it's raining or a beautiful day, I'm happy cause I'm riding my cares away. In the saddle.” 3:12
- Seen
- cattle [frame:1], horses [frame:2], river [frame:3], mountains [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serene and pastoral; themes: western life, freedom on horseback, nature as backdrop; style notes: wide shots, natural lighting, black-and-white, open landscape framing
A group of cowboys on horseback herd cattle near a river with mountains in the background. The scene is accompanied by a song about riding and feeling at home in the saddle.
“From singing when I go slinging along.” 2:53 · “I feel at home in the saddle. Just let me ride high and wide on the side of a western hill.” 2:59 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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