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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 17 · permalink

Shop

4:57–5:20 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:594:59Frame at 5:015:01Frame at 5:065:06Frame at 5:155:15

Play from 4:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 31–34. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • Sheriff (named at t:5:10): man in a suit, hat, and tie, holding a gun visible, audible
  • man in a cowboy hat, light shirt, and neckerchief, holding a gun visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit points a gun at another man. [frame:1]
  • The cowboy turns and raises his hands. [frame:2]
  • The sheriff walks toward a counter while the cowboy stands near shelves. [frame:3]
  • The cowboy gestures with his fist while speaking to the sheriff. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm afraid you got me wrong, Sheriff. I didn't do any of it. It looks like we've got you right.” 5:10 · “Reloaded, eh?” 5:17
Seen
gun, gun, counter, shelves with bottles, barrel, vase
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, accusation, law enforcement; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period Western costume

A man in a suit and hat confronts another man in a cowboy hat inside a building with shelves and a counter. The man in the suit demands the other raise his hand and step away from a gate, while the cowboy denies involvement in an unspecified act.

“Put up your hand.” 4:59 · “Step away from that gate.” 5:04 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 4:59 (passage 4:57–5:20); US record: No renewal found

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