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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 41:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 110 · shots 258–260. 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
- boy, wearing a light-colored shirt and a wide-brimmed hat, appears young, thin build visible, audible
- Cutie (named at t:42:00): man, wearing a dark cowboy hat and dark shirt, middle-aged, stern expression visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The boy and man sit near a tree, the boy holding a letter. [frame:2]
- The man looks down with a pained expression. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Your real name is Jim Hayden.” 42:16 · “Your dad and brother were killed by gentry and his gang when you were a babe.” 42:20
- Seen
- letter [frame:2], cowboy hat [frame:1], tree [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, revealing; themes: identity, family secrets, revelation, orphanhood; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, static camera
A boy and a man sit outdoors near a tree; the boy holds a letter revealing his true identity as Jim Hayden, whose father and brother were killed by Gentry's gang. The man, called 'Cutie' and later 'bud', reacts emotionally as the letter is read.
“Daddy was dead and that witch wasn't my real dad.” 41:45 · “I'm gonna open this, bud.” 42:03 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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