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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 41 · permalink

Private office

12:07–12:33 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:1212:12Frame at 12:2612:26

Play from 12:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 66–67. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Marvin (named at t:12:27): man in a suit, medium build, light hair visible, audible
  • person in uniform, partially visible, wearing a hat visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit holds a gun and looks down at a table. [frame:1]
  • The man gestures toward another person entering the room. [frame:2]
Also said
“Round up the bullet.” 12:26 · “All right, Marvin.” 12:27
Seen
gun, table, chair, uniform, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority, dialogue-driven action; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, period costume

A man in a suit stands in a dimly lit interior, holding a gun and speaking to someone off-screen. Another person in uniform enters the scene as the man gestures and says 'All right, Marvin.'

“I'm going to go.” 12:10 · “Fight!” 12:18 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 12:12 (passage 12:07–12:33); US record: No renewal found

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