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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 31 · permalink

Street

8:17–9:08 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:238:23Frame at 8:408:40Frame at 9:009:00

Play from 8:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 50–52. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman in a long dress with puffed sleeves and a dark belt, standing in a doorway visible
  • person on horseback, wearing a hat and coat, approaching a building visible
  • several people on horseback in the background, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A street scene with riders on horseback is shown. [frame:2]
  • A person on horseback approaches a building entrance where others are gathered. [frame:3]
Seen
wooden barrel, wooden chairs, horses, building entrance with posters
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly tense; themes: departure, uncertainty, western setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, natural lighting

A woman stands in a doorway while a street scene shows riders on horseback. A person on horseback approaches a building entrance where others are gathered. No names are spoken, and no specific time of day or period is established.

“I'm going to go.” 8:28 · “I don't know.” 8:37 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 8:23 (passage 8:17–9:08); US record: No renewal found

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