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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 111 · permalink

Private office

32:34–33:00 Registered 1934

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.

Frame at 32:4732:47

Play from 32:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 186–186. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat, dark shirt, gun belt, visible from waist up visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, lighter shirt, gun belt, visible from waist up visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men in cowboy attire stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“We're putting more of it right over there.” 32:52 · “So be kind of careful where you sling that .45.” 32:54
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], gun belts [frame:1], .45 pistol (mentioned) [t:32:54], dynamite (mentioned) [t:32:36], plunger (mentioned) [t:32:47]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conspiratorial; themes: threat, preparation, cowboy confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, Western costume

Two men in cowboy hats and Western attire stand facing each other in a dimly lit interior. One speaks about dynamite placed around a terminal entrance and a plunger that can detonate it, warning the other to be careful with his .45 pistol.

“We got dynamite planet all over this place.” 32:36 · “Press the plunger in his room.” 32:47 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 32:47 (passage 32:34–33:00); US record: No renewal found

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