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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 123 · permalink

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36:16–36:22 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:1736:17Frame at 36:1836:18Frame at 36:2136:21

Play from 36:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 199–201. 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 cowboy hat, face obscured by shadow visible
Seen happening
  • A person in a cowboy hat is visible in shadow. [frame:1]
  • A close-up of a hat with a band, possibly the same person. [frame:2]
  • The person in the cowboy hat is again visible, same framing as frame 1. [frame:3]
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], hat with band [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious or tense due to low lighting and obscured face; themes: identity concealment, dialogue-driven moment; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing on hat and shadowed face, minimal background detail

A person wearing a cowboy hat is visible in dim lighting across three frames. The transcript contains two spoken words: 'Abby' and 'Alley'.

“Abby.” 36:17 · “Alley.” 36:21 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 36:17 (passage 36:16–36:22); US record: No renewal found

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