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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 41:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 255–257. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:3
- People
- boy, wearing a light-colored shirt and a wide-brimmed hat, appears young, thin build visible
- man, wearing a dark shirt and a dark cowboy hat, appears middle-aged, rugged features visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The boy looks downcast, standing near a tree. [frame:1]
- The man looks concerned, speaking. [frame:2]
- The man and boy stand facing each other near a tree, engaged in conversation. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “He and his wife worked for my dad.” 41:38 · “Didn't Ann Martha ever tell you about your father?” 41:42
- Seen
- cowboy hat, cowboy hat, cowboy hat, tree, fence
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and reflective; themes: family history, revelation, past connections; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and two-shots, natural outdoor lighting, period Western attire
A boy and a man in cowboy hats talk outdoors near a tree; the man mentions Martha, Butch's wife, and that they worked for the boy's father. The boy reacts with recognition and asks if Martha ever told him about his father.
“that you gave it to me once you died.” 41:26 · “She was Butch's wife.” 41:31 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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