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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 44 · permalink

Private office

13:13–13:31 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:1713:17Frame at 13:2513:25

Play from 13:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 28 · shots 71–72. 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 dark cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing with hands on hips visible
  • group of men in cowboy hats and shirts, gathered around a table visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands with hands on hips. [frame:1]
  • A group of men in cowboy attire gather around a table. [frame:2]
Also said
“Where's the 30,000?” 13:25 · “Well, where's the money?” 13:29
Seen
cowboy hat, wooden table, wooden stool, wooden door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation; themes: property acquisition, financial negotiation, Western frontier; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting

A man in a cowboy hat stands with hands on hips in a wooden interior. A group of men in cowboy attire gather around a table in the same setting, discussing money and property ownership.

“Now we'll get his niece to sell us the halfway house.” 13:14 · “And we'll own the whole of Paiute Pass for 20 miles.” 13:17 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 13:17 (passage 13:13–13:31); US record: No renewal found

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