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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 184 · permalink

Bar

50:44–50:59 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:4950:49Frame at 50:5550:55Frame at 50:5850:58

Play from 50:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 314–316. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a suit, vest, tie, and fedora hat visible
  • hand holding a revolver, wearing a sleeve visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit and hat stands in a bar. [frame:1]
  • A hand holds a revolver. [frame:2]
  • A cloud of smoke appears. [frame:3]
Seen
revolver [frame:2], bar counter with bottles [frame:1], wooden crate [frame:1], cloud of smoke [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, departure; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a suit and hat stands in a bar, then a hand holds a revolver, followed by a cloud of smoke. The transcript contains a single line spoken at 50:49.

“I'm going to go.” 50:49 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 50:49 (passage 50:44–50:59); US record: No renewal found

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