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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 103 · permalink

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30:29–30:59 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: period without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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.

Frame at 30:4430:44

Play from 30:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 174–174. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a light-colored cowboy hat and light shirt, back turned visible
  • wearing a dark cowboy hat and dark coat, pointing visible
  • wearing a light cowboy hat and vest with buttons, standing with hands on hips visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark coat points at another man who is turning away. [frame:1]
Also said
“Make sure she doesn't see where she's going.” 30:40 · “It might not be a bad idea to get him out of here before the girl arrives.” 30:51
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], light shirt [frame:1], vest with buttons [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: covert movement, planning, western genre conventions; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, period costume, studio lighting

Three men in cowboy hats are shown in an interior setting; one is being directed by another while a third stands nearby. The transcript indicates plans to bring someone named Sally Rogers to the location and to move another person out before she arrives.

“Take this to Sally Rogers.” 30:36 · “Get her. Bring her here.” 30:38 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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Frame from Randy Rides Alone (1934) at 30:44 (passage 30:29–30:59); US record: No renewal found

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