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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 130 · permalink

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38:10–38:49 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 38:1338:13Frame at 38:1838:18Frame at 38:3538:35

Play from 38:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 210–212. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and shirt, seen in profile and from behind visible
  • person with white hair, wearing dark clothing, sitting and covering their face with both hands visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands near a rocky wall. [frame:1]
  • The man in the cowboy hat turns away from the camera. [frame:2]
  • A person with white hair sits and covers their face with their hands. [frame:3]
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], rocky wall [frame:1], white hair [frame:3], hands covering face [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and tense; themes: isolation, distress; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing on characters, minimal background detail

A man in a cowboy hat is shown in profile and from behind near a rocky wall, followed by a shot of a person with white hair sitting and covering their face. The only audible sound is wind.

“*Sounds of the wind*” 38:11 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 38:13 (passage 38:10–38:49); US record: No renewal found

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