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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 156 · permalink

Bar

45:34–45:44 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:3745:37Frame at 45:4245:42

Play from 45:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 258–259. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: t:45:35
People
  • man in cowboy hat and dark shirt, facing right visible
  • man in cowboy hat, seen from side/back, facing p1 visible
  • man in suit and hat, standing at table visible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, standing left of table visible
  • man in cowboy hat, standing behind table visible
  • man in cowboy hat, standing right of table visible
  • man in cowboy hat, seated at table visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in cowboy hats face each other in a dim interior. [frame:1]
  • A group of men in cowboy hats and one in a suit stand around a table. [frame:2]
Also said
“So it is there, eh?” 45:40
Seen
{'item': 'cowboy hats', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cowboy hats', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'table with objects on it', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'suit', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, western setting, group dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up and medium group shot, high-contrast lighting

Two men in cowboy hats face each other in a dim interior; a wider shot shows a group of men in hats gathered around a table in the same space. The transcript mentions a compartment in front of a bar at a halfway house and a line about belief.

“In the compartment in front of the bar at the halfway house.” 45:35 · “And I believed in you.” 45:38 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 45:37 (passage 45:34–45:44); US record: No renewal found

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