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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 42 · permalink

Private office

12:33–13:00 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:4012:40Frame at 12:5312:53

Play from 12:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 68–69. 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
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and shirt, seated at a table visible
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and shirt, seated at a table visible
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and dark coat, standing in a doorway visible
  • man with light-colored hair, wearing dark formal clothing, seated near a vanity visible
Also said
“Get the rest of the bunch.” 12:41 · “I know.” 12:45
Seen
wooden table [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], vintage vanity with mirror and bottle [frame:2], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: authority, summons, group coordination; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period Western costume and set design

Two men sit at a table in a rustic interior while a third stands in a doorway; a separate shot shows a man in dark clothing seated near a vanity. The transcript indicates someone is being summoned by 'the boss' and told to gather others.

“Hey, the boss wants to see us.” 12:33 · “Tommy, come on, wake up.” 12:36 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 12:40 (passage 12:33–13:00); US record: No renewal found

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