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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 20 · permalink

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5:39–6:05 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; 4 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 5:525:52

Play from 5:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 37–37. 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 wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, and gun belt; standing with hand raised visible, audible
  • man with mustache, wearing suit and vest, standing center visible
  • man wearing fedora and glasses, holding paper visible
  • man in hat partially visible on left visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat is confronted by others. [frame:1]
Also said
“This looks like a job for the coroner.” 5:59 · “We'll lock this one up.” 6:01
Seen
cowboy hat, gun belt, suit and vest, fedora and glasses, paper
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: accusation, law enforcement, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s Westerns

A man in a cowboy hat confronts others in a room while being accused of a crime; a sheriff orders him arrested and others rounded up. No names are spoken, and the setting appears to be an interior space with multiple men present.

“You're right.” 5:40 · “You're wrong, sheriff.” 5:45 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 5:52 (passage 5:39–6:05); US record: No renewal found

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