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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 158 · permalink

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45:50–46:00 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:5145:51Frame at 45:5345:53Frame at 45:5645:56Frame at 45:5945:59

Play from 45:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 261–264. 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
  • man with mustache, wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt visible
  • man with beard, wearing cowboy hat visible
  • man in cowboy hat, seen from back or side visible
  • man in cowboy hat, standing near table visible
  • woman with short hair, wearing light dress visible
  • man in cowboy hat, blurry close-up visible
Seen happening
  • Several men and a woman are gathered around a table in a rocky interior [frame:3]
Also said
“and” 45:55
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], table [frame:3], rock wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, western genre tropes; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on faces, grainy black-and-white film stock

Two men in cowboy hats are shown in close-up, followed by a dark rock face, then a wider shot of several men in hats around a table with a woman, and finally a blurry close-up of a man's face. The transcript includes shouted names and a reference to 'the sheriff'.

“Mike!” 45:51 · “Marvin! The sheriff!” 45:53 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 45:51 (passage 45:50–46:00); US record: No renewal found

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