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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 53 · permalink

Jail

15:54–16:14 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; 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 15:5815:58Frame at 16:0816:08

Play from 15:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 87–88. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with curly hair, seen from behind, wearing light-colored dress visible
  • Ed Rogers (named at t:16:00): man wearing hat and shirt, behind bars, face partially visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands facing a man behind jail bars. [frame:1]
  • The man behind bars raises his hand to his head. [frame:2]
Seen
jail bars [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confinement, identity, interrogation; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, confined framing by bars

A woman speaks to a man behind jail bars; the man confirms he was Uncle Ed Rogers. The scene is set inside a jail cell with bars visible.

“Was your Uncle Ed Rogers?” 16:00 · “He was.” 16:00 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 15:58 (passage 15:54–16:14); US record: No renewal found

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