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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 24:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 171–171. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- adult male, wearing dark cowboy hat and dark coat visible, audible
- Spuds (named at t:24:48): younger male, wearing light-colored cowboy hat and light shirt visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Two men in cowboy hats sit outdoors in a grassy area. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Butch will beat me. Oh, I'll have something to say about that.” 24:59 · “I was beginning to think I'd have to come in after you.” 25:35
- Seen
- cowboy hats [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], light shirt [frame:1], grassy terrain [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but reassuring; themes: confrontation, protection, return home, fear of punishment; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, natural outdoor lighting, period Western costume
Two men in cowboy hats are outdoors in a grassy area; one reassures the other about safety and returning home. One man mentions being beaten by 'Butch' and insists no one can stop him.
“Oh, don't worry, Spuds. We're all right.” 24:48 · “I'm thinking of what's gonna happen to me when I get back.” 24:56 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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