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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 2 · permalink

Beat 2

0:02–0:51 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:030:03Frame at 0:260:26Frame at 0:500:50

Play from 0:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 2 · shots 1–3. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Seen
Lone Star Pictures logo [frame:1], Production credits text [frame:2]
On screen
[{'text': 'LONE STAR PICTURES', 'evidence': 'frame:1'}, {'text': 'A PAUL MALVERN PRODUCTION Story and screen play by LINDSLEY PARSONS Photographed by ARCHIE STOUT Technical Director E.R. HICKSON Recorded by J.A. STRANSKY, JR. Edited by CARL PIERSON', 'evidence': 'frame:2'}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, formal; style notes: black-and-white, static title cards with centered text and graphic logos, typical of 1930s film openings

The beat displays opening credits for a film, including the Lone Star Pictures logo and production credits, followed by a black screen. No people, actions, or dialogue are present in the frames.

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 0:03 (passage 0:02–0:51); US record: No renewal found

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