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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 51 · permalink

Jail

15:30–15:45 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 15:3215:32Frame at 15:3615:36Frame at 15:4215:42

Play from 15:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 81–83. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • woman, curly hair, wearing a patterned dress with puffed sleeves and a dark bow at the neckline visible, audible
  • man, wearing a cowboy hat and a light-colored shirt, seated visible, audible
Also said
“Give me a chance, I can prove it.” 15:39
Seen
jail cell bars [frame:3], cowboy hat [frame:2], patterned dress [frame:1], wooden chair [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: innocence, confrontation, justice; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, studio set with minimal background detail

A woman in a patterned dress speaks to a man in a cowboy hat inside a room with a jail cell; the man denies being a killer and asks for a chance to prove it. The woman stands near the cell bars while the man is seated nearby.

“You don't look like a killer.” 15:32 · “I'm not.” 15:37 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 15:32 (passage 15:30–15:45); US record: No renewal found

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