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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 118 · permalink

Private office

34:20–35:06 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:3534:35Frame at 34:5834:58

Play from 34:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 193–194. 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
  • woman, light dress, dark hair, mid-20s, average build visible, audible
  • man, cowboy hat, light shirt, mid-30s, medium build visible, audible
  • man, cowboy hat, dark shirt, mid-30s, medium build visible
  • man, cowboy hat, light jacket, mid-30s, medium build visible
  • man, dark hat, dark coat, mid-30s, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands surrounded by four men in a room. [frame:1]
  • A man grabs the woman's arm while speaking to her. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, I don't know what you're talking about.” 34:53 · “Lock her up. We'll give her a chance to refresh her memory.” 35:01
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], wooden door frame [frame:1], light dress [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: interrogation, power imbalance, confinement; style notes: tight framing on characters, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A woman is confronted by several men in a dim interior; one man grabs her as others look on. She denies knowing about money, and is ordered locked up to 'refresh her memory.'

“Where's the money?” 34:44 · “I don't know. Oh, you don't know, huh?” 34:46 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 34:35 (passage 34:20–35:06); US record: No renewal found

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