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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 128 · permalink

Bar

36:47–37:01 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:4936:49Frame at 36:5536:55Frame at 37:0037:00

Play from 36:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 206–208. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: t:36:55
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat and dark coat, visible in profile visible
  • person lying on floor, wearing checkered shirt, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A person lies motionless on the floor with a pillow under their head. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat reaches into a compartment near a wooden bar. [frame:2]
  • The man continues searching the compartment, looking down intently. [frame:3]
Also said
“in a compartment in front of the bar.” 36:55 · “Now, don't worry. No matter who questions you,” 36:57
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:2], wooden bar with compartments [frame:2], pillow under person's head [frame:1], checkered shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: concealment, obedience under threat, Western setting; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on hands and face, high contrast black-and-white

A man in a cowboy hat searches a compartment near a bar while another person lies on the floor. Spoken lines indicate urgency and instructions to remain silent if questioned.

“You'd better move this first.” 36:52 · “Where is it?” 36:54 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 36:49 (passage 36:47–37:01); US record: No renewal found

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